A settlement to the north-east of the mill, with a cemetery of over 100 graves is believed to have been in use from the early Iron Age, through Belgic and Roman occupation until Anglo-Saxon times.

[5] The modern village built up along a single street that runs approximately parallel to the River Cam from the old London to Cambridge road (now the A10) towards Little Shelford.

[5] Listed as Hafucestune in the 10th century and Hauochestun in the Domesday Book, the name Hauxton means "Farmstead of a man called Hafoc".

[5] Hauxton had a 2011 population of 673 and has an organic food shop, a small convenience/grocery store and hair salon (both located on the ground floor of Mill View) and a church.

In addition to the Ship and Chequers at Mill End (the latter of which closed between 1930 and 1960), Hauxton formerly had two public houses, The King's Head and The Leather Gaiters, which opened in the mid-19th century.

Remediation was undertaken by Vertase plc, and monitored by South Cambridgeshire District Council and a number of national environmental protection bodies.

These bodies concluded that the remediation process, although it generated unpleasant odours over a wide area, was essentially harmless to health.