Kington
Kington is a market community, selecting ward as well as civil church in Herefordshire, England. According to the Parish, the ward had a population of 3,240 while the 2011 census had a population of 2,626. The name 'Kington' is originated from King's-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Community", similar to various other neighboring communities such as Presteigne significance "Priest's Town" and also Knighton being "Knight's Town". Kington is to the west of Offa's Dyke so presumably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, however devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the failure of Roger de Breteuil, second Earl of Hereford in 1075. Prior To 1121 King Henry I gave Kington to Adam de Port, who started a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have been a peaceful barony and was related to the office of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, possibly the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also fled the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, just to take off from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the great mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and became an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being given to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £100. The castle after that saw action in the Braose Wars versus King John of England and also was most likely to have actually been damaged by royal forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a brand-new citadel was commenced as well as the close-by Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were abandoned. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a terrific outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle as well as Norman church on top of a protective hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary's church, positioned on greater ground over the town centre. 'Chingtune' was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name definition Kings Town or Manor, high on capital over the town where St. Mary's Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined in between 1175 and 1230 on land bordering the River Arrow as well as perhaps assigned as part of the Saxon open area system. Situated on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge and with 8 yearly fairs, Kington grew in relevance as a market town as well as there is still a prospering animals market on Thursdays. The town retains the medieval grid pattern of streets and also back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary's Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of close-by Hergest Court, slaughtered at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his wife, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are said to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog's discovery reputedly presages fatality. It is likewise rumoured to have actually been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have remained at nearby Hergest Hall shortly prior to he created the novel.