The village is split by the A1 Great North Road and is located just before the junction with the A428 at the Black Cat roundabout.

The rivers Great Ouse and Ivel form a large part of the parish's western boundary.

Grass parkland surrounds Tempsford Hall and there is an area of woodland at the eastern edge of the park.

Off the eastern bank of the Ivel at the southernmost point of the parish is a lake formed from a disused sand and gravel pit.

Outlying areas to the north and east form part of the predominantly flat, Biggin Wood Clay Vale.

The whole parish is low lying and flat with the highest point just over 50 metres (164 ft) at Sir John's Wood in the far north-east.

[7] Around the village the soil has low fertility, is freely draining and slightly acid with a loamy texture.

The eastern area of the parish has highly fertile, lime-rich loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage.

[9][10] The built environment Along Station Road are a number of Grade II listed, late 17th-century, colour-washed, roughcast-rendered, thatched cottages.

At Church End the former White Hart public house dates from the 16th century and is timber framed with a jettied gable and clay tile roof.

In 2001 an extensive metal footbridge over the A1 was constructed which links Station Road with the former Anchor Hotel, Memorial Hall and Church End.

Prehistoric finds recovered from the Tempsford area include stone tools and other artefacts dating from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.

South of Tempsford Church End and east of the River Ivel are cropmarks of ring ditch round barrows.

Archaeological excavations carried out in Tempsford Hall park in 1999 found sherds of Roman pottery, ditches relating to middle to late Saxon enclosures and a complete Maxey ware bar-lug vessel.

[17] Gannocks Castle, a scheduled ancient monument to the west of Church End, was a motte and bailey fortified manor house built by the Normans in the late 12th or early 13th century.

Bedfordshire Records & Archives Service hold log books detailing day-to-day events in the school's history.

Flowers and market gardening crops were a source of business until 1948, before the nursery began to specialise in floriculture rather than horticulture.

The main hall can accommodate up to 150 people and has a stage suitable for theatrical productions or concerts and a maple wood sprung dance floor.

[31] Founded in 2013, the Tempsford Museum & Archives is housed in the old Gentlemen's Snooker Room in the Stuart Memorial Village Hall.

It houses a collection of artefacts, deeds, maps, newspaper cuttings, family papers, postcards photographs, books and letters associated with the village of Tempsford.

In December 2013, Prince Charles visited and was photographed holding a glass of beer after attending a Service of Dedication and unveiling a memorial to honour and remember the women agents who flew out of RAF Tempsford to aid resistance movements in occupied Europe.

[36] The Tempsford Times magazine which reports on parish council meetings, church and village events is published bimonthly and distributed free to residents.

[39][40] Weekly buses to Biggleswade, St Neots and Cambridge are run by community, non-profit operator Ivel Sprinter.

[41] There is a plan to open a new railway station in Tempsford as part of the development of East West Rail, a new line between Oxford and Cambridge.