Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Peter­borough
  • /
  • Helpston
  • Back Forward
A white-washed cottage with a dark thatched roof and dormer windows sits alongside a road under a blue sky.

Clare cottage, Helpston

Clare Cottage, Helpston

History of Clare Cottage

This is the cottage where the poet John Clare was born, the son of a farmworker. He is buried in St Botolph’s churchyard at Helpston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clare

Oil painting of a young man with wavy brown hair, wearing a brown coat, white collar, and a yellow patterned necktie.

John Clare, 1820

Tags

  • literature

Projects

  • Helpston

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Helpston

57 (63) (62) Norwich Street

57 High Street, Royston

55 (64) (63) Norwich Street

14 Park Parade, Cambridge

21 Market Place, Wisbech

Jesus Green Lido

9 Corona Road, Cambridge

2 St Eligius Street

85 Catharine Street, Cambridge

Physwick Hall

(51) (90) King Street