Buildings of 17th century dating include the Manor House and the former Three Horseshoes Inn, now a private dwelling.

The parish of Great Raveley covers 1,781 acres of mostly clay land, rising from Great Raveley Fen in the north, where the height above ordnance datum is only 3 ft. 6 in., to 129 ft. at Top Road in the southwest corner of the parish.

A short distance north-west of this farm is a square homestead moat within which stood the ancient manor house of Moyne's Manor Also spelled: The even smaller village of Little Raveley did have a correspondingly small church, the Church of St James, which has an Early English chancel and a 15th-century nave.

It is thought that St James' Church, Little Raveley, was built in about 1230 with the nave being rebuilt in the late 14th century when it was widened.

The walls are of rubble with stone dressings partly plastered and the roofs covered with tiles.

The arch is of early 16th-century date, of two orders, the inner carried on engaged shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

The north wall of the late 14th-century nave has two original two-light windows and a blocked doorway.

The south wall has two early 16th-century windows, a doorway of similar date and a 15th-century piscina with shelf.

The west wall has no window, but a large buttress in the middle; in the gable above is a bell-cote for two bells, formerly standing up above a flat roof, but now, by the raising of the gable, incorporated in the western wall and below the line of the present roof.

It is uncertain when it first acquired the parochial rights of baptism, marriage and burial, but the font is of the 15th century and the parish registers go back to 1576.

The living was a donative, the incumbents, who were called chaplains or curates, being collated by the lord of the manor.

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

[5] The Raveleys are part of the electoral division of Warboys and Upwood[3] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

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