The route of the 18th-century Stourport and Leominster Canal passed through the parish, and flowed through Moreton-cum-Ashton and along the western edge of the Berrington Hall estate.

The same year Ashton comprised two "respectable" farm houses, a blacksmith's and wheelwright's shop, dispersed cottages, and "the mound of Castle Tump" camp to the north.

Moreton consisted of a farm house, a school building which included girls' classes in sewing and knitting and which was built by Lady Rodney in 1855, and "several" cottages.

At Ashton was a blacksmith & agricultural implement maker[5][6][7][8][9] The parish church, Ss Peter and Paul, in Eye village, was described as a "a plain building of stone in the gothic style", and included a tower with six bells and a clock, a Rodney chapel divided from the chancel by carved oak screens, and two altar tombs "believed to belong to the Cornewall family", one with the recumbent effigy of a knight, the other with effigies of a knight and his lady.

[5][6][7][8] At Eye village the parish room, "an iron building", was recorded next to the railway station, and a Moravian Mission was in existence.

In 1909, in Nordan (hamlet) at the south of the Luston part of Eye parish, is recorded Nordan Hall, a "mansion of brick, pleasantly situated on the summit of the hill... with a fine prospect over the vale of Leominster", the residence of Major (later Lt-Colonel) James Gurwood King-King DSO, a veteran of the North-West Frontier and Boer War.

[6][7][8] The parish' principal landowners were Sir Frederick Cawley, William Kevill-Davies of Croft Castle, and James Gurwood King-King.

Commercial trades and occupations in the parish included seven farmers, one of whom was also a hop grower, the farm bailiff and the gardener to Sir Frederick Cawley, a cowkeeper, a blacksmith, a coal merchant and a coal & lime merchant at the railway station, a shopkeeper, a carpenter, a house painter, and a boot & shoe maker who was also a carrier (transporter of trade goods, with sometimes people, between different settlements).

There were two market gardeners of the same family, six cow keepers, two castrators of the same family, a carpenter & wheelwright, a blacksmith, a dressmaker, a shoemaker, a timber merchant who ran a sawmill, a shopkeeper & postmistress, a monthly nurse, the licensee of The Balance Inn, and the sanitary inspector to Leominster Rural District Council.

Adjacent parishes are Luston at the west, Croft and Yarpole and Orleton at the north-west, Brimfield at the north, Kimbolton at the south and, with Middleton on the Hill, at the east.

South from the three settlements is the house, parkland, woodland and gardens of the National Trust property of Berrington Hall which extends over virtually the whole south-east part of the parish.

The parish boundary with Luston is defined by the Ridgemoor Brook, a tributary of the River Lugg which it joins at Leominster.

[17][18][19][20][21] Eye, Moreton and Ashton is represented in the lowest tier of UK governance by three members on the 10-member Luston Group Parishes council.

[16] 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.

[23] In 1974 Croft and Yarpole became part of the now defunct Leominster District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

[26][27] The closest rail connection is at Leominster railway station, 3 miles (5 km) to the south-east, and on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line.

At Moreton is a centre for conductive education, at Ashton are holiday cottages and a catering company, on an A49 lay-by a cafe in a double-decker bus, and at the north-east, a base for an online clothing and equipment supplier for horse riding.

Above the tombs is a wall tablet, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, which commemorates the three sons of Lord Cawley who died in the First world War.

[35][36] The second Grade I listing includes Berrington Hall and its laundry, dairy and stable outbuildings surrounding the north-east courtyard.

The hall is a neoclassical English country house dating to 1778 - 1781, designed by Henry Holland for Thomas Harley, a banker and Lord Mayor of London who had bought the Berrington estate in 1775.

The present parkland was laid out by Capability Brown, which includes the 14 acres (5.7 ha) Berrington Pool lake and island.

[40][41] To the east from Eye village is the site of the Hereford and Shrewsbury line railway station which opened in 1866 and closed in 1958.