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

RAF Kimbolton was opened as a bomber airfield on the southern edge of the village in 1941, and was operated by the USAAF from 1942 to 1945.

According to a locally published collection of short stories, 'Ploughing Songs' by Damian Croft,[2] the reason why the public houses that were in Stow Longa were closed down in the 1950s was because, "returning drovers used it to give a bad name to a few otherwise nameless women."

[3] For Stow Longa the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council.

Stow Longa is part of the electoral division of Sawtry and Ellington,[4] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

At Westminster Stow Longa is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire,[4] and has been represented since 2005 in the House of Commons by Shailesh Vara (Conservative).

[9] A minster or mother-church of the local estate (which included Stow Longa, Spaldwick, Easton, Little Catworth, Barham and Upthorpe) before its importance was subsumed by Spaldwick and Kimbolton, St Botolph's wealth and importance attracted noted figures to the prebendary, such as Thomas Wolsey, who was Stow Longa's prebend from 1509 to 1514.