Catworth 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 were 34 households at Catworth.

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.

[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.

It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary.

Between 1645 and 1646, a number of women in Catworth were accused of being witches in a witch-hunt conducted by the so-called Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins.

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

[13] Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions.

[14] Catworth is part of the electoral division of Sawtry and Ellington[12] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

The village and parish lie on a bedrock of Oxford clay from the Jurassic period.

There are a number of other active community groups including Art, Amateur Dramatics, Cinema and Family History societies in Catworth.

Catworth is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the south of Junction 16 of the A14 road that runs from the Port of Felixstowe to the M1 and M6 motorways at Catthorpe Interchange, Leicestershire.

The Anglican church at Catworth is dedicated to St Leonard and is a Grade I listed building.

Sir Felix Booth, distiller of gin and promoter of arctic exploration, had a house at Brook End, about a quarter of a mile from Catworth.