The Walton Golf Club is 2 kilometres from the centre of the village.

Major John Wilson purchased approximately 10,283 acres (4,161 ha) of the Te-Pae-o-tu-Rawaru No.1 block.

The Long Depression hit the area in the 1880s and many properties came under ownership of the bank, the properties controlled by the bank became known as Richmond Downs with the other areas being known as Walton.

[3]: 274 The area is predominantly dairying with some maize growing and meat chicken farming.

Walton had a flag station on the East Coast Main Trunk,[4] opened from Morrinsville to Tīrau (then called Oxford) on Monday 8 March 1886[5] by the Thames Valley & Rotorua Railway Co. New Zealand Railways Department took over the line on 1 April 1886.

By 1896 a platform, cart approach, loading bank, sheep yards and a passing loop for 21 wagons had been added.

Walton is in an SA1 statistical area, which also includes Richmond Downs and covers 15.86 km2 (6.12 sq mi).

The percentage of people born overseas was 13.6, compared with 27.1% nationally.

[17] The first school in Walton began in 1896 was run out of a railway cottage and had 13 pupils.