[1] Buckworth lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Huntingdon and covers an area of 2,023 acres.

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

[4] According to the Dictionary of British place-names, the name of the parish comes from the "enclosure of a man called Bucc, or where bucks are kept".

[5][6] 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.

[9] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 25 households at Buckworth.

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

In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acres (49 hectares); this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family.

[9] 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.

Concerning agriculture, Buckworth used to be on the route from the north of England to bring animals to the London markets.

The other principal categories of employment were professionals, animals, dress, mineral substances, and house, furniture and decorations.

During the night of 16 April 1942, five land mines from the British aircraft were jettisoned near Brook Lodge Farm.

[19] The main sources of employment now include manufacturing, wholesale trade, the retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, real estate, renting and business activities, public administration and defense.

Housing types are a mix of detached and semi-detached which are for the most part owner-occupied or private rented.

[23] However, detached houses are the most popular type of property sold in the area and are worth an average of £340,137.

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

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