Stoke by Clare, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stoke-by-Clare, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Stour, and on the G.E.R., 2½ miles WSW of Clare. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Sudbury; money order and telegraph office, Clare. Acreage, 2430; population, 658. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Elwes family. Stoke College was originally a Benedictine priory, founded in the time of the Confessor, and is now the property of the Elwes family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £115 with residence. The church is a fine building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, dating in part from 1415. There are an almshouse and several useful charities. Archbishop Parker was dean of Stoke College.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stoke by Clare from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke-By-Clare (St. Augustine))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Stoke by Clare are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press