[1] Upwood lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Huntingdon, near Bury.

[2] The village lies along the High Street which runs parallel to the main road from Great Raveley to Ramsey about 300 yards to the west.

[4] 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.

[7] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 35 households at Upwood.

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.

[7] 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 Upwood the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge.

In 2011, the parish covered an area of 4,663 acres (1,887 hectares)[17] and so the population density for Upwood and The Raveleys in 2011 was 176.

The walls are of rubble with stone dressings, those of the chancel patched with brickwork, and the roofs are covered with lead.

Of the church mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), which was probably of timber, nothing remains, but about the year 1100 a stone church consisting of a chancel and an aisle-less nave was built, of which the chancel arch and part of the north wall of the nave remain.

Some fifty years later the chancel was rebuilt and widened and an arcade cut into the nave wall and a north aisle built.

The following century saw the building of the south aisle and west tower, and, apparently in connection with this work, the western arch of the north arcade was rebuilt.

The arch, of c. 1100, has two plain orders resting on simple imposts; it is much depressed, and under it is a 15th-century oak screen.

There is an ancient gable cross, but the parapets have been rebuilt partly with brick, and have lost the fillings of their merlons.

In the wall between the chapel and the chancel is a recess with a blocked squint; westward of it is a modern opening for access to the pulpit.

The west tower was rebuilt in 1890, but the towerarch is of 13th-century date, and the belfry windows are of two lights of the same period.

An early 14th-century niche has been rebuilt into the west wall, also a corbel of a woman's head in wimple, and a kneeling figure, both of the 13th century.

The font is a plain square bowl possibly of c. 1150, on a modern stem and base; it has a 17th-century pyramidal oak cover.

Charles Montagu, youngest son of Viscount Hinchingbrooke, d. 1780; in the south aisle to Richard Ross, d. 1730; matrices of brasses of a demi-figure of a priest with inscription plate, and a figure of a woman with inscription plate and four scrolls, both 15th century; floor slabs to Reginald Michell, d. 1706, and the Rev.