Gun's Lane, named after a family who lived here, is the old medieval road from Cambridge to the Isle of Ely. During the Norman conquest of England, William the Conqueror passed this way with his army as he chased a rebel Saxon, Hereward the Wake, into the Fens. Nowadays it’s a bridleway frequented by walkers of all descriptions going from the northern end of Histon to Westwick before it turns into Rampton drift and continues on towards Willingham and eventually Ely.