HELPSTONE, a parish in the liberty of PETERBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S.S.W.) from Market-Deeping, containing 372 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £8. 0. 5., endowed with £200 rpyal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to StBotolph, has traces of Norman, with insertions in the early, later, and decorated, styles of English architecture.