A World War II airfield (RAF Glatton) built nearby is now known as Peterborough's Conington Airport.

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.

[5] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 35 households at Glatton.

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.

[5] 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.

The second tier of local government is the Huntingdonshire District Council of Cambridgeshire, with its headquarters in Huntingdon.

For Glatton, the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council, based in Cambridge.

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

[14] At Westminster Glatton is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire,[12] held by Shailesh Vara (Conservative) since 2005.

The closest is Stilton Church of England VC Primary School 1.8 miles (2.9 km) away.

[25] Glatton has a parish church dedicated to St Nicholas belonging to the Diocese of Ely.

Its four bells bear the inscriptions 1) COMM COMM AND PREAY 1595, 2) SEARVE GOD AND OBEAY THY PRINCE 1595, 3) J.TAYLOR & CO FOUNDERS LOUGHBOROUGH 1863, and 4) OMNIA FAINT AD GLORIAM DEI SOLI THO.