Yelling is a linear village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire administrative district of Cambridgeshire, England.

[2] The village was listed as Gelinge, Gellinge and Ghellinge in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire.

[6] For Yelling the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council.

Yelling is part of the electoral ward of Buckden, Gransden and The Offords,[7] which is represented on the county council by one councillor.

Then in 1974, after the Local Government Act 1972, Yelling became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.

Yelling is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon,[7] and has been represented since 2024 in the House of Commons by Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative).

[14] In 2016 there was a planning application on the notice board outside the chapel for it to be converted into a private home.