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Welcome to Huntington

 

Huntington is a small parish in the union of Kington, 4½ miles south west of the town. Huntington contains 100 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the Arrow, and is situated on the borders of Wales.

The pastures are rich, and the dairy-farms are under excellent management.  The church, St Thomas a Beckett, is an ancient structure, said to have been built with the materials of an adjoining castle, formerly a place of great strength. Huntington Castle is an 11th century castle that seems to have been founded as the direct successor of Kington Castle - William Fitz Osbern.

There is a Congregational Chapel which was also a nonconformist day school established in 1791 by Edward Goff, a coal merchant of Scotland Yard, London. The Chapel is attached to the east side of a house which is a later 19th century extension. Yearly village fetes are held at grounds at Huntington Park, a post medieval landscape park.

The village has a small village pub, The Swan Inn, which is a stone building that dates back to the 17th century and is run by Mrs Cate. The pub is open in the evenings from 7pm till 11pm and closed Mondays. There is an old village post office, which is now closed, was run by a lday for 40 years. Close to the pub and post office there is a large village hall that was built just over 8 years ago. The hall is used for dance lessons, meetings and celebrations. Huntington is described as a “bird watchers’ paradise” and is close to the Offa’s Dyke Path