Great Gidding is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England.

[3] Great Gidding was listed as Geddinge, Gedelinge and Redinges in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire.

Bam Bam had already done 42 missions and the crew reported strong smell of fuel inside however they were told to continue in air they reported to control that the smell was getting constantly worse and wanted to return.

Due to the controversy that the crew raised concerns but were ordered to fly, this was kept a secret for 70 years until 2014[6] Great Gidding has a parish council consisting of six councillors.

Great Gidding is part of Sawtry ward and returns two councillors to the council.

Great Gidding is part of the electoral division of Sawtry and Ellington[8] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

[10] At Westminster Great Gidding is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire,[8] and has been represented in the House of Commons by Shailesh Vara (Conservative) since 2005.

The village is near the Alconbury brook, which has a course of about 13 miles, rising near Lullington and joining the Ouse at Huntingdon.

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

[18][19] In 2002 a small wood was planted in the northeast of the village with public access via a path to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

[22] In 1944 the local education authority took over control but the school formerly had very strong links with the church for events such as Harvest and Easter.