Farcet is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

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

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

[10] Farcet is part of the electoral division of Norman Cross[8] and is represented on the county council by two councillors.

The church was restored in 1852 when the chancel and chapel are said to have been rebuilt, the nave roof renewed and the north aisle added.

The old River Nene flows through the area and it can be reached to the Green Wheel cycling and walking network, on the end of St Mary's Street, near the working men's club.

The Fen View Heritage Centre was opened in 2018 by the Fenland Trust, in the chapel of Farcet cemetery.

[13] Lieutenant Walter Henry Goodale (RAF) was born in Farcet in 1894, before moving with his family to Peakirk, Goodale was later killed in action when the DH9 airplane he was piloting was shot down over the Western Front in World War I[14] Farcet was home to the astronomer George Alcock MBE, one of the most successful visual discoverers of novas and comets, the October 1959 episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night was filmed in his back garden in the village.