[1] Covington lies approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Huntingdon near to Catworth and close to the county borders with both Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.

Covington 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.

[4] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 18 households at Covington.

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

[4] 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.

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

[10] Covington is part of the electoral division of Brampton and Kimbolton[8] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

The village and parish lies on a bedrock of Oxford clay from the Jurassic period[11] The land in the north of the parish is characterised as Oadby Member Diamicton, from the Quaternary period, with rocks formed during Ice Age conditions by glaciers scouring the land.

Covington is about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south of Junction 16 of the A14 road that runs from the Port of Felixstowe to the Catthorpe Interchange, Leicestershire.

The highest point of the historic county of Huntingdonshire, known as Boring Field, is within the Parish, although the ground continues to rise as it goes into Northamptonshire.

[15] Visiting this lowest historic county top, near Three Shires farm, is of interest to participants in the sport of Hill bagging and Highpointing.