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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

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