Helions Bumpstead is a small village in Essex located near Haverhill and the meeting-point of the Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders. It is 2 miles from Steeple Bumpstead. Helions Bumpstead has "the greens"; Pale Green, Wiggens Green, and Drapers Green. There are four roads into and out of the village; they are Mill Road, Water Lane, Sages End Road and Camps Road. The centre of the village is marked by the crossroads and village green. There is also a meadow with a pond in the centre of the village.
Helions Bumpstead in 1960
Steeple Bumpstead is a village and civil parish 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Haverhill in Braintree district, Essex, England.
The footbridge on the corner of Church Street, Steeple Bumpstead
The Shopping Basket - Bowtells - (Then High Street) Chapel Street around 1930