The English village Helpston, which means farmstead, is home to a 981-populated civil parish (in 2011) and the birthplace ofpoet John Clare.
Helpston (also, formerly, "Helpstone") is an English village formerly in the Soke of Peterborough, geographically in Northamptonshire, subsequently (19651974) in Huntingdon and Peterborough, then in Cambridgeshire, and administered by the City of Peterborough unitary authority. The name Helpston is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means the farmstead (tun) first settled by Help (an Old English personal name). The civil parish of Helpston covers an area of 1,860 acres (750 ha) and had an estimated population in 2011 of 981. The poet John Clare was born in Helpston in 1793 and is buried in the churchyard of St Botolph's. 
