Kington
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In England- Kington (hundred)Kington (hundred)Kington or Kineton was a historic hundred of the county of Warwickshire in England. The hundred covered the southern part of the county, and lay south of Warwick, between the River Avon on the west and the River Itchen on the east...
- Kington, HerefordshireKington, HerefordshireKington is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,597.-Location:Kington is near the Wales-England border and, despite being on the western side of Offa's Dyke, has been English for over a thousand years. The town is in the...
- Kington, WorcestershireKington, WorcestershireKington is a village in Worcestershire, England. Situated near to Flyford Flavell, the earliest known recording of Kington in the Domesday Book under "cyne-turne" – the "King's farmstead"....
- Kington LangleyKington LangleyKington Langley is a village and civil parish about north of Chippenham in Wiltshire, England.-Geography:The parish covers about . The geology is mostly of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It is on a high water table and the soil is composed of sand with a sub-soil of Oxford Clay. The village...
, Wiltshire - Kington MagnaKington MagnaKington Magna is a village in the Blackmore Vale area of north Dorset, England with a population of 376 . It is west of Shaftesbury, north of Sturminster Newton and east of Sherborne. The village was founded in the twelfth century, but most of the current buildings are no older than the seventeenth...
, Dorset - Kington St MichaelKington St MichaelKington St Michael is a village and civil parish about north of Chippenham in Wiltshire.-Location:Kington St Michael is about south of junction 17 of the M4 motorway and Chippenham and about west of the A350....
, Wiltshire - West KingtonWest KingtonWest Kington is a village in Nettleton civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is close to the county boundary with Gloucestershire and southeast of the Gloucestershire market town of Chipping Sodbury....
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People
- L. Brent KingtonL. Brent KingtonL. Brent Kington is a visual artist working in blacksmithing and sculpture. He is also an art educator."L. Brent Kington is frequently hailed as the man responsible for the start of the blacksmithing revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s...
, American Artist and Metalsmith - Miles KingtonMiles KingtonMiles Beresford Kington was a British journalist, musician and broadcaster.-Early life :...
, British journalist and musician - Raynard S. KingtonRaynard S. KingtonRaynard S. Kington is the president of Grinnell College. He was most recently deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, and officially became the 13th president of Grinnell College on August 1, 2010. Kington entered a combined B.S./M.D. program at the University of Michigan at age 16,...
, deputy director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and will become the president of Grinnell College
See also
- KinetonKinetonKineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....
- Kingstone, SomersetKingstone, SomersetKingstone is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated near Ilminster, north east of Chard in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 83....
- Kingston (disambiguation)
- Kingston Bridge (disambiguation)
- Kingstown (disambiguation)Kingstown (disambiguation)Kingstown is the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Kingstown may also refer to:*Kingstown, Maryland, United States*Kingstown, New South Wales, Australia*Kingstown, North Carolina, United States...
- Kinston (disambiguation)