The church in Great Stukeley is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew[1] and the village war memorial is contained within its grounds.

[5] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 27 households at Great Stukeley.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands.

[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.

'In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Stukeley like this:

It helps to maintain and extend the paths in the built area and the countryside, provides the bus shelter, litter, dog-waste and salt bins.

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

[14] Great Stukeley is part of the electoral division of Huntingdon[12] and is represented on the county council by two councillors.

Great Stukeley is situated on the old Roman road of Ermine Street on a small hill to the north-west of Huntingdon.

[15] The surface soil is characterised as Oadby Member Diamicton, formed within the last two million years during Ice Age conditions by glaciers scouring the land.

[15] The village, which is approximately 42 metres (138 ft) above sea level, lies just to the north of the A14 road that runs from the Port of Felixstowe to the Catthorpe Interchange, Leicestershire.

[16] Eastern areas of the United Kingdom, such as East Anglia, are drier, cooler, less windy and also experience the greatest daily and seasonal temperature variations.

Protected from the cool onshore coastal breezes further to the east of the region, Cambridgeshire is warm in summer, and cold and frosty in winter.

The nearest Met Office climate station to Great Stukeley is at Monks Wood near Alconbury, which is 3.4 miles (5.5 km) to the north.

The average annual rainfall for the United Kingdom between 1981 and 2010 was 1,154 millimetres (45.4 in) but Cambridgeshire is one of the driest counties with around half of the national level.

By taking the bus into Huntingdon it is possible to ride on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway to St Ives and into Cambridge.

Great Stukeley has several amenities although the village shop and Post Office closed many years ago.

There is a large recreational field with children's play equipment on the eastern side of Ermine Street.

Great Stukeley village hall is situated at the entrance to Owl End and it hosts many functions each month including Tumble Tots and Weight Watchers.

The nearest hospital is Hinchingbrooke, which is 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south from Great Stukeley and has a range of specialities, including Accident and Emergency.