It is described in Kelly's Directory (1929) as a "village and parish 2½ miles south-east from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern Railway and 6 south from Newmarket, in the hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."Burrough Green was sold to Sir Anthony Cage in 1574, whose descendants became greatly indebted during the Civil War.[8] The Manor House (or Old Hall), built c. 1575 replacing one which existed as early as 1086, stands near the church and is now a farmhouse, being remodelled as such in the nineteenth century.The Icknield Way Path passes through the village on its 110-mile journey from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk.The Icknield Way Trail, a multi-user route for walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists also passes through the village.
