Early residents were George and Augusta Leigh, the latter being Lord Byron's half-sister.

[4] There was little additional building until the 1840s, but it grew from there until there were 22 homes housing around 170 people in around 1920, most owned by the Six Mile Bottom estate.

It had served since the hamlet grew in the early 19th century, but may also be the same inn with stabling for 22 horses that was reported in 1686.

In the 1970s it was owned by ex-Flying Squad detective, Alec Eist, who had been dismissed for corruption.

There is one bus a day in each direction, on the route between Cambridge and Stetchworth; that is the only public transport.