Clare Rural District

Clare
Clare
	; 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.

Parishes

Year	Area^[2]		Population ^[3]	Density (pop/ha)
Year	acres	ha	Population ^[3]	Density (pop/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	49,360	19,975	8,828	0.44

^ "Clare RD through time: Census tables with data for the Local Government District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
^ "Clare RD through time: Population Statistics: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
^ "Clare RD through time: Population Statistics: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.