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Synopsis
On the borders of the Lincolnshire fens half-way between Stamford and Peterborough stands the little village of Helpston. One Helpo a so-called 'stipendiary knight' but of whom the old chronicles know nothing beyond the bare title exercised his craft here in the Norman age and left his name sticking to the marshy soil.