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. 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.
Parishes Parish From NotesBarnardiston Cavendish 1935 From Melford RDClare Cowlinge Denston Depden 1935 From Thingoe RDGreat Bradley Great Thurlow Great Wratting Hawkedon 1935 From Melford RDHundon Kedington Lidgate 1935 From Moulton RDLittle Bradley Little Thurlow Little Wratting Monks Risbridge Ousden 1935 From Moulton RDPoslingford Stansfield Stoke by Clare Stradishall Wickhambrook Withersfield Wixoe
Statistics Year Area Population Density(pop/ha) acres ha1911 39,522 15,994 8,567 0.541921 7,348 0.461931 6,958 0.441951 49,360 19,975 9,413 0.471961 8,828 0.44
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