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

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

[7] Holme is part of the electoral division of Norman Cross[5] and is represented on the county council by two councillors.

[7] Holme is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire[5] and has been represented by Shailesh Vara (Conservative) since 2005.

In that year the mere disappeared, when new drains carried waters to a pumping station and up into Bevill's Leam.

As it was progressively exposed it became unstable, and steel guys were added in 1957, when a second iron post was also installed 6 metres (20 ft) to the northeast.

During World War II, the Hall was used by US Office of Strategic Services for packing airborne containers to be parachuted into occupied Europe.

The village has a primary school and a parish church, dedicated to St Giles, which was rebuilt in 1862 by Edward Browning.

There is a large village green and a nature reserve, and Holme is surrounded by fields, forests and fens.

[13] The village sign (above right) shows a man leading a horse towing the Floating Church of Holme that was dedicated to St Withburga by the Archdeacon of Huntingdon on 5 April 1897.

The Fenland Ark was the idea of the rector of Holme, Rev George Broke, who thought that a church on a boat could reach families living in remote cottages in the Fen to allow them to worship.