[2] Brington is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth.

[6] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 14 households at Brington.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands.

[6] The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland.

[6] The Domesday Book does not mention a church at Brington, but one existed by 1178 when Pope Alexander III confirmed one to Ramsey Abbey.

The ecclesiastical parish was known from the Middle Ages as Brington with Bythorn and Old Weston and covered an area of 1,055 acres (427 hectares).

The Royal Flying Corps established an airfield near Old Weston to the north of the parish in the First World War which was abandoned in September 1917.

During the Second World War an airfield was built in 1940 and 1941 and named RAF Molesworth; from 1942 it was used by the United States Air Force.

A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields.

For Brington the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge.

[15] Brington is a part of the electoral division of Sawtry and Ellington and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

[17] The village, which is approximately 43 metres (141 ft) above sea level, lies on the B660 just to the north of Junction 16 of the A14 road that runs from the Port of Felixstowe to the Catthorpe Interchange, Leicestershire.