In 1066 the canons of St Guthlac at Hereford held the manorial lordship, who in 1086 remained lords and were also tenants-in-chief to king William I.

St Michael's comprised a nave, chancel, vestry, a south porch, a western embattled tower with five bells, four "newly cast" by 1858.

The living was a rectory with a value of £144 a year net income, and also included 47.5 acres (19 ha) of glebe—an area of land used to support a parish priest—and a residence, in the gift of Messrs. Wood, who were also lords of the manor.

The closest money order and telegraph office was less than 1 mile (2 km) south-east at Burley Gate on the present A465 road.

In 1858 children were educated at a school supported by private subscription, providing for the Felton, Ullingswick and Little Cowarne parishes.

[7] Adjacent parishes are Bodenham at the north, Ullingswick at the north-east, Ocle Pychard at the south-east, and Preston Wynne with a small part of Marden at the south-west.

[8][9][10][11] The parish is rural, of farms, arable and pasture fields, managed woodland and coppices, water courses, isolated and dispersed businesses, residential properties, and the small nucleated settlement of Felton.

[7] The parish is represented in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

[8][9] Within Felton are four Grade II listed buildings, being St Michael's Church, two houses, and a hop kiln.

Constructed of "local grey sandstone" with a slate roof it comprises a nave with a stepped down and narrower chancel, a west tower, a north vestry, and a south porch.

There are three windows in the chancel, the east being of three lights with geometrical tracery and stained glass imagery depicting Christ.

At the south of the chancel is a piscina and a window seat, and at the north, a "large" aumbry, with the floor laid with encaustic tiles.