Clare | |
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Location within West Suffolk, 1894 Location within West Suffolk, 1935 | |
History | |
• Created | 1894 |
• Abolished | 1974 |
• Succeeded by | Borough of St Edmundsbury |
Status | Rural district |
• HQ | Clare |
Clare Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894, comprising those parishes in the Risbridge rural sanitary district which were in Suffolk.
On 1 April 1935 it was enlarged by the addition of the parishes of Lidgate and Ousden from the disbanded Moulton Rural District, Cavendish and Hawkedon from the Melford Rural District and Depden from the Thingoe Rural District. [1] It was named after and administered from Clare.
Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the borough of St Edmundsbury which became West Suffolk district in 2019.
Parish | From | Notes |
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Barnardiston | ||
Cavendish | 1935 | From Melford RD |
Clare | ||
Cowlinge | ||
Denston | ||
Depden | 1935 | From Thingoe RD |
Great Bradley | ||
Great Thurlow | ||
Great Wratting | ||
Hawkedon | 1935 | From Melford RD |
Hundon | ||
Kedington | ||
Lidgate | 1935 | From Moulton RD |
Little Bradley | ||
Little Thurlow | ||
Little Wratting | ||
Monks Risbridge | ||
Ousden | 1935 | From Moulton RD |
Poslingford | ||
Stansfield | ||
Stoke by Clare | ||
Stradishall | ||
Wickhambrook | ||
Withersfield | ||
Wixoe |
Year | Area [2] | Population [3] | Density (pop/ha) | |
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acres | ha | |||
1911 | 39,522 | 15,994 | 8,567 | 0.54 |
1921 | 7,348 | 0.46 | ||
1931 | 6,958 | 0.44 | ||
1951 | 49,360 | 19,975 | 9,413 | 0.47 |
1961 | 8,828 | 0.44 |
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