[6] The village stands at the edge of Woodwalton Fen, an area of special scientific interest.

[5] 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.

[9] The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 19 households at Wood Walton.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands.

[9] 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.

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1920s show a number of simple agricultural tramways on the fen north of Woodwalton village.

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.

It collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism.

For Wood Walton, the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge.

[14] Wood Walton is part of the electoral division of Warboys and the Stukeleys[13] and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

[13] In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Wood Walton was recorded every ten years by the UK census.