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

[4] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 22 households at Folksworth.

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.

[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.

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.

Folksworth and Washingley Parish Council meets at the village hall on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7.20 pm.

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

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

In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Folksworth was recorded every ten years by the UK census.

Folksworth has a village hall, a church (St Helens) and a small primary school of four classes, teaching ages 4 to 11.

[15] The village's only public house (The Fox), had closed down in 2013 but re-opened in April 2017 as a pub and restaurant.