LINTON, a village and a parish in the district of Newent, and county of Hereford. The village stands on the boundary line between the country of Hereford and Gloucester, 4½ mile ENE of Ross r. station; and has a post office under Ross.—The parish comprises 2,775 acres. Real property, £5,081, of which £100 are in quarries. Pop., 915. Houses, 21 1. The manor belongs to John Wright, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £555.*-Patron, St. John's College, Oxford. The church is ancient, and has a tower and spire. There are a Baptist chapel and a slightly endowed school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))