[3] Within Linton, at Burley, meaning 'woodland clearing by or belonging to a fortified place' from the Old English burh with lēah (grid reference SO668533), is the site of a 'tradition of a fortification on the high ground', first attested in 1294.

Occupations listed included 12 farmers, three shopkeepers, one of which at Bringsty Common, a cider dealer, two blacksmiths, a wheelwright, and a surveyor of the highways.

[6] By 1856, the owner of Clater Park, and also Saltmarshe Castle, was William Barneby (1801-57), the 1849 High Sheriff of Herefordshire, and a director of the Worcester and Leominster Railway Company.

His heir, William Barneby (1846-95), in 1885 was Herefordshire's Deputy Lieutenant, a JP, and one of Linton's chief landowners, while the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were one of the two lords of the manor.

By now there were 16 farmers listed, a carpenter, three beer retailers, a brick and tile maker, a shopkeeper, a gamekeeper to William Barneby, and three blacksmiths, one of which ran a post office at Brigsty Common.

Occupations listed included 16 farmers, one of which was also a hop grower; a house decorator; a carpenter; two beer retailers and two shopkeepers at Bringsty Common; two blacksmiths, one at Linley Green the other also running the post office; and Stream Hall Tileries Ltd (brick and tile makers).

The workhouse was subjected in 1893 to an outbreak of smallpox, transmitted by tramps, following which an adjunct isolation site for infectious diseases was established to treat infected patients, this a cottage on 5 acres (2.0 hectares) of meadow, costing £260, at Burley, on which were erected six bell tents.

[14] Adjacent parishes are Norton and Brockhampton at the north, Whitbourne at the north-east, Suckley (in Worcestershire) at the east, Stanford Bishop at the south, Avenbury at the south-east, and Bromyard & Winslow at the west.

The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland and coppices, water courses, isolated and dispersed businesses, residential properties, the hamlet of Linley Green at the south, and the public open land of Bringsty Common at the north-east.

From the higher ground at the centre north of the parish is Linton Brook (stream), and its tributaries, which flows south-west to the River Frome in Stanford Bishop.

At Bringsty Common are two streams flowing east which converge in Whitbourne to become Sapey Brook, a tributary to the River Teme at the north-east.

A minor road from the B4220 runs east and forks at Linley Green: left towards Knightwick, Worcestershire, and right towards the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[14][19] Linton is represented in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

The house sits on a raised earth plinth terrace in a landscaped park which includes a gate lodge, a lake and a kitchen garden.