Helpston

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Helpston is a village in Cambridgeshire, England administered as part of the City of Peterborough.

The name 'Helpston' is though to have derived from helping to carry limestone to Peterborough from the neighbouring village of Barnack. It has a parish church named after St. Botolph.

John Clare the poet was born in Helpston in 1793.

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Coordinates: 52°37′N, 0°20′W