Barham and Woolley is located about nine to eleven miles North-West of Huntingdon in the County of Cambridgeshire. The nearest main roads are the A1, about three miles East, and the A14 about one and a half miles South. These give road access. The population of both parts of the Parish is small but activities are held from time to time. The two villages are now joined as a single Civil Authority and also for the Anglican Church as a single Parochial administration.  Barham, for years the smaller village is now the larger having approximately seventeen dwellings.

In the village of Barham is the Anglican Church, of St.Giles dating back to Early Middle ages and services are held regularly. The church is quite small. There are two churchwardens.

In the Middle Ages Woolley was a relatively large village. The population declined and in the early nineteen sixties the church (St. Mary’s) became redundant and was mainly taken down. A few walls and an Arch are now all that remains of the building but the churchyard is still open and from time to time open air services have been held in the Summertime. The church had had been built in the early medieval period. An unusual feature was that at one time in the seventeenth century the priest was the son of the Russian Czar,

The local telephone exchange for the area for the Parish and surrounding villages is located in Woolley.

By the late nineteen sixties there were only six houses. Since then there has at intervals over time three more houses built.

Agriculture and Countryside activities are an important aspect in the Parish. Other businesses are in the Electrical Installation, Building and the Hospitality work with two of the latter offering Bed and breakfast facility. (One in Barham and one in Woolley) . There are one or two other small businesses but no shops and now no public house or Post Office.