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

[2] The church is central in the village and the south doorway contains parts that are of Norman origin.

In 1085, William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth.

[5] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 16 households at Southoe.

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.

[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.

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

[12] Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions.

[13] Southoe is part of the electoral division of Buckden, Gransden and The Offords[11] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.