Also directory listed is Brockhampton House, 2 miles (3 km) north-east from Bromyard, had attached a private chapel with its own curate.

The parish of 1,708 acres (691 hectares) had 'clayey and loamy' soil, on which were grown chiefly wheat, barley and beans, and had an 1851 population of 528.

Occupations listed in the Norton part of the parish were nine farmers, one of which was also a builder, a carrier—transporter of trade goods, with sometimes people, between different settlements—two shopkeepers, a miller at Three Mills, a blacksmith, and a collector of rates.

A School Board was formed in 1882 covering the united district comprising Bromyard, Norton with Brockhampton, Linton, and Winslow.

Occupations over and above the 1880s listings included a Primitive Methodist minister, a chimney sweep, a laundry worker, and a pig killer at Bromyard Downs, two head gardeners, and a tobacconist.

[9] Adjacent parishes are Edvin Loach & Saltmarshe at the north-west, Tedstone Wafer and Tedstone Delamere at the north, Whitbourne at the north-east, Brockhampton at the east comprising the National Trust's Brockhampton Estate, Linton at the south, and Edwyn Ralph and Bromyard & Winslow at the west.

The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland and coppices, water courses, small lakes and ponds, isolated and dispersed businesses, residential properties and, at the south-east, the public open land of Bromyard Downs where there is an agglomerated residential area.

Flowing north to south at the west of the parish is a tributary to the River Frome which forms the western boundary with Bromyard & Winslow, and farther upstream, Edvin Loach & Saltmarshe.

[9][16] Norton 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 Norton became part of the now defunct Malvern Hills District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

[17] Until Brexit, on 31 January 2019, the parish was represented in the European Parliament as part of the West Midlands constituency.

[18] The closest rail connections are at Leominster railway station, 12 miles (19 km) to the west, Hereford 13 miles (21 km) to the south-west, both on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line, and Worcester Foregate, Worcestershire Parkway and Worcester Shrub Hill railway stations at Worcester, 10 miles (16 km) east with links on the Cotswold, Cross Country and West Midlands Trains lines.

[22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] There are two public houses: the Royal Oak at Bromyard Downs, and the Holly Tree on the B4203 at the south-west which is also a bed & breakfast establishment.

North from the Holly Tree is a dog boarding kennels, and north-east at Bromyard Downs, a taxi service and a woodland holiday home business.

[32] Buckenhill Manor (grid reference SO658565), 1 mile (2 km) north from Bromyard, off the B4203 road, and dating to about 1730, is a two-storey with attic red brick house.

The attic floor is surrounded by a Victorian brick parapet where the two external three-bay windows are set within gabled dormers topped with finials.

On left hand (south-west) return is a five-sided two-storey rendered stone wing with a crenellated parapet.

At Fishpool Orchard (grid reference SO6836057820), 100 yards (91 m) south-east from Cockalay, is the archeological site of a post medieval fishpond.

[49][42][50] Upper Norton (grid reference SO6809058088) at the north of the parish and 500 yards (457 m) east from the B4203, is a late 18th-century, L-shaped red brick house of two storeys and an attic.

There is a central panelled entrance door set within a porch with cornice, and pilasters are at each edge of the building from ground to roof line.

The roof is gabled with slate tiles, at the north-east end of which is an external chimney stack, stone below and brick above.