There was a small settlement at Linton, the third hamlet of Highnam Manor. By c.1267 and in 1607 the hamlet had about eight houses including the farmhouses of five of the larger copyhold estates. Five houses were recorded at Linton c.1710 and c.1755 three of the six largest farms on the manor had farmhouses at the south end of the lane leading from the Gloucester to Ross road towards the Severn. By 1843 only Linton Cottages survived there, a pair of late 18th or early nineteenth century brick cottages which were empty and derelict in 1970. Linton Farm has a large rectangular brick farmhouse of the early 19th century situated at the north end of the lane which was under construction in 1822. At this time Linton Farm had 500 acres.
Linton today is represented only by the single farmhouse just south of the Ross road. In that area of the two or three cottages, there was a corn mill supplied from the Great Pool below Highnam Court. The main settlement was at Lower Linton, a cluster of farmsteads in the meadows further south; when John Guise inherited the estate there were still four, from which several of the larger holdings on the estate were farmed. The site was a less unlikely one for such a hamlet than now appears, for the lane leading to it from the Ross road once continued on through Murcott in Minsterworth parish and seems to have been once the usual route people took from Gloucester on their way down to Newnham and Chepstow.
Linton Farm was purchased by a benefactor together with Over Farm in the mid 20th century who was formerly a patient at St. Thomas’s and donated them both to St. Thomas’s hospital in London. Both Linton and Over have subsequently been repurchased. Linton is now owned by the Smart family.
