The village is just over 0.6 miles (1 km) to the west of the A1 road, and Route 51 of the National Cycle Network passes to the south.

Landscape The village lies within the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands (NCA 88) as designated by Natural England.

[4] Central Bedfordshire Council has classified the local landscape as the Great Ouse Clay Clay Valley (type 4A); a shallow, fairly wide valley of the Rivers Great Ouse and Ivel.

On the eastern bank of the Ivel just over the parish boundary are two lakes formed from disused sand and gravel pits.

[7] Geology and soil type The village lies on first, second and third terrace river gravel or boulder clay.

[8] The soil has low fertility, is freely draining and slightly acid with a loamy texture.

The refuges were in-filled and the cutwaters capped with half-pyramid shaped stones when the parapet was raised.

A well-preserved paved stone invert was found under the easternmost arch during repair works in 1992.

The single span plate girder Ivel Navigation bridge of five curved cast iron beams resting on abutments of large sandstone blocks was built in 1823.

Moreton and Kinman of the Vulcan Foundry, Biggleswade was the manufacturer and their name plate is bolted to the west abutment below the south girder.

The post office national archives record the issue to Blunham in August 1886 of a type of postmark known as a rubber datestamp.

It was one of about 2,500 compulsory compensated closures of UK post office branches announced by the Government in 2007.

Blunham parish council is made up of 10 elected councillors who serve a four-year term.

It is part of Sandy ward for elections to the Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority.

Now in North East Bedfordshire, the elected member is Richard Fuller of the Conservative Party.

P G Technical Services, The Hill, has been providing CNC milling and turning as well as conventional manual machining including surface grinding since 1986.

A variety of chillis are grown under glasshouses at Villa Nurseries off Grange Road by Genovese Ltd. Just outside the parish at South Mills is packaging company DS Smith's corrugated sheetfeeding facility.

The school is named after John Donne, (1572 – 1631), poet, Dean of St. Paul's, Member of Parliament and a former Rector of Blunham parish.

[27] Family Life Church - Blunham Old Chapel The building, next to the school on the High Street, dates from 1751,[28] and was fully refurbished in 2016 to look and feel contemporary yet keeping some of its original features.

The village hall is home to Blunham Community Cinema which commenced in February 2016 with National Lottery funding.

[29] The Horseshoes owned by Charles Wells is the only public house in the village and is first mentioned in historical records as far back as 1769.

The former telephone exchange building in Station Road houses a ladies hair salon.