In 1834, the overseer of the poor considered that an excess of beer-houses may have been partly responsible for recent problems.

High, flat land in the east of the parish was hard to drain before mechanisation and was usually used for pasture and as the village common.

[5] It is in the parliamentary constituency of South Cambridgeshire, represented at the House of Commons by Anthony Browne.

The district council boundary, marked by the Home Dole Brook, separates Little from Great Gransden.

[10] The parish has two airfields: Little Gransden Airfield, located at Fuller's Hill Farm, which holds an air and car show every summer;[11] and Gransden Lodge, a former Royal Air Force station which saw active service in World War II, but is now a gliding site,[12] its three paved runways having been removed.

A cross in the churchyard commemorates Little Gransden men who were killed in World Wars I and II.

[14] The parish church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, was built from stone in the 13th Century and comprises a chancel, a nave of four bays, and an embattled western tower containing three bells.

In 1858 the chancel was restored and its east end rebuilt; a stained window was put in by the Rev.