Editing Kington Magna (section)

==History==
The name Kington Magna means 'great King's Town';<ref name=Treves>{{cite book|author=Sir Frederick Treves|author-link=Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet|title=Highways and Byways in Dorset|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028032351|publisher=Macmillan and Co. Ltd|year=1906|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028032351/page/n48 23]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=North Dorset District Council|title=North Dorset Official District Guide|publisher=Home Publishing Co. Ltd.|year=c. 1983|page=37}}</ref> it derives from ''cyne-'' (later ''cyning'') and ''tūn'', [[Old English]] for 'royal estate or manor'. The affix ''magna'', [[Latin]] for great, was added to distinguish it from Little Kington, a smaller settlement nearby.<ref name=mills>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=br8xcW1f_a8C&dq=kington+magna+dictionary+british+place+names&pg=PT735 |title=A Dictionary of British Place Names |first=David |last=Mills |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |isbn=9780191578472}}</ref><ref name=life>{{cite web |url=http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2006/12/kington-magna/ |title=Kington Magna |publisher=Dorset Life Magazine |date=December 2006 |first1=Rodney |last1=Legg |first2=Clive |last2=Hannay |access-date=12 January 2015}}</ref> In 1086 in the [[Domesday Book]] these were recorded together in three entries as ''Chintone'', which had 27 households and a total taxable value of 13 geld units, and was in the [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]] of Gillingham.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/little-kington-and-kington-magna/ |title=Place: [Little] Kington and Kington [Magna] |publisher=domesdaymap.co.uk |work=Open Domesday |access-date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112163223/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/little-kington-and-kington-magna/ |archive-date=12 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset2.html |title=Dorse H-R |work=The Domesday Book Online |access-date=11 January 2015 |publisher=domesdaybook.co.uk}}</ref> In 1243 it was recorded as Magna Kington.<ref name=mills/> Most of the current buildings in the village are no older than the seventeenth century.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} In 1851 a [[Primitive Methodism|Primitive Methodist]] chapel was built in the village; it was on Chapel Hill, which runs parallel to Church Hill.<ref name=life/> In 1860 a pottery was established at Bye Farm, north of the main village; it manufactured tiles, drainpipes, bricks, and chimney and flower pots. The parish church of All Saints was [[Victorian restoration|restored]] and enlarged in 1862;<ref name=life/> most of the building, except for the late 15th-century west tower, was rebuilt.<ref name=inventory/> Near the church is a pond which was a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] fishpond.<ref name=life/>