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Helpston

Helpston is an English village in Cambridgeshire.

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The place

Helpston is an English village in Cambridgeshire. Historically; it was formerly in the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, subsequently (1965–1974) in Huntingdon and Peterborough, then in Cambridgeshire. It is administered by the City of Peterborough unitary authority.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Helpston

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Woodcroft Castle

    Woodcroft Castle is a moated medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England.

    2.1 km · medieval castle in the parish of Etton, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Maxey Castle

    Maxey Castle was a medieval fortified manor house castle in Maxey, Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.4 km · castle, now ruinous, in Maxey, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Northborough Manor House

    Northborough Manor House, also known as Northborough Hall or Northborough Castle Farmhouse, is a medieval fortified manor house, and Grade I listed building in the village of Northborough in Cambridgeshire, England.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed house in Northborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ufford Hall

    Ufford Hall is a Georgian country house in the village of Ufford, now in the Peterborough unitary authority area of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Ufford was part of the Soke of Peterborough, which was associated with Northamptonshire but had its own county council from 1888 until 1965, and then formed part of Huntingdon and Peterborough until 1974.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed country house in Ufford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Helpston

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 85 km · London Stansted (STN), 92 km
Stations
Helpston railway station, 900 m · Barnack railway station, 3.9 km · Bainton Gate railway station, 3.1 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Helpston
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Helpston
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Helpston
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Helpston

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Helpston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    226 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    364 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    452 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    487 km

If you know how people move in Helpston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Helpston

Helpston is 53 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Maxeyvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK3 km
  • Ettonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Marholmvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, UK3.4 km
  • Uffordvillage and civil parish in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK3 km
  • Baintonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Glintonvillage and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England3.3 km