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

In the 9th century they split, and in 974 the manor fell under the ownership of Ramsey Abbey, where it remained until the dissolution in 1539.

[4] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 32 households at Hemingford Abbots.

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] In addition to the arable land, there was 80 acres (32 hectares) of meadows and a water mill at Hemingford Abbots.

[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.

The parish council consists of seven councillors and normally meets on the last Wednesday of the month (except in August and December).

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

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

The present church of St Margaret's, Hemingford Abbots is largely a result of the reconstruction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.