Although technically the village, the class action settlement has the easily-chiseled centre, a little market place, & has the look and urban sense of a like settlement. A centrepiece of the village is Kimbolton Castle which forms the independent building of Kimbolton School (formerly the boarding school), but its predecessor on the equivalent places was when at home & prison to Catherine of Aragon, one of the married woman of Henry VIII. Catherine died at Kimbolton Castle within 1536 and was transported from there to Peterborough Cathedral to be buried.

Kimbolton, & a lands of its soke, comprised the just estate of King Harold in Huntingdonshire, It is believed that Harold got the hunting lodge nearby. Kimbolton & its church, St Andrew's, appear in the Domesday book, compiled in 1086.

A highway across Kimbolton (when section of the independent A45 trunk road from Birmingham to Felixstowe but, after a opening of the A14 redesignated as a B645) bends through quartet pinching right angles in promptly succession. Originally, a road travelled directly through the fringe of the village, nigh to the River Kym to the north. Inside 1200, a large local landholder, Geoffrey Fitzpiers, Earl of Essex and Chief Justice to King John, who constructed the foremost castle on the present places, received a Royal charter to hold a market & fair inside Kimbolton - there exists however the fair each September, known locally when the "Statty" (presumeably from either "statutory". A highway was diverted to its present course to require it through the market place. 800 years late, following of many vehicles striking bulwarks & houses touching a sharp bends, transporter are non intromit this village.

Within World War II, the U.S.A.F. 379th Bombardment Group was stationed at the nearby Kimbolton Airfield from May 1943 to June 1945.

[http://www.kimboltonfireworks.com/ Kimbolton Fireworks], the easily-known manufacturer of pyrotechnic & organiser of public pyrotechnic displays, is depending around Kimbolton.