[1] Lying approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Huntingdon, Earith is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

Many fenland inhabitants resented the Royalists because they believed that the King's drainage projects undertaken by Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden, had damaged their livelihoods (his Forty Foot Drain had been completed in 1637).

[4] On 17 January 1942 a number of RAF serviceman were killed in a crash involving a Hawker Hurricane from 61 Operational Training Unit and a Short Stirling bomber.

On 17 March a 50 yards (46 m) gap was torn in the river bank, and water poured out to flood the Fen farms for five days.

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

The village has a post office, a Tandoori takeaway, a barber’s shop, one public house (The Crown) and a school.

The village is home to a marina, and during winter months ice skating is popular at nearby Bury Fen.

The footpath covers (150 miles (241 km)) in total between the source of the River Great Ouse at Syresham and its mouth in The Wash near King's Lynn.

Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire, Vectare and Whippet Coaches have all previously operated bus routes that serve Earith.

Whippet Coaches routes 21 and 22A (later operated by Dews Coaches and Vectare), and the Busway A service of Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire, connected Earith to St Ives and Somersham with the Stagecoach route continuing via the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway to Cambridge at peak times.

Throughout the 2010s and early 2020s, the St Ives and Somersham service underwent constant changes with several changes of operater before all routes were combined into the Dews Coaches 301 on 14th October 2024.