[3] In 1885 Newton, on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, was a township in the parish of Croft which was north from Leominster, but from which Newton was alienated, and the Hundred of Wolphy in the northern division of Herefordshire, and part of the union—poor relief and joint workhouse provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834—petty sessional division and county court district of Leominster.

The chief crops grown were wheat, beans, root vegetables and hops, with orchards and pasture, on a light alluvial soil.

The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland, orchards, and isolated and dispersed businesses and residential properties.

The only other route is a cul-de-sac minor road, Newton Lane, which runs 1.5 miles (2 km) east to west through the parish from a junction with the B4361.

[9] 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.

In 1974 Newton became part of the now defunct Leominster District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

Within the parish is a Cadbury's confectionery factory at Marlbrook, a cider and perry producer with associated orchards, a veterinary surgery, and the headquarters of an amateur radio society.