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Clare

Clare is a small market town in Suffolk on the north bank of the River Stour. Clare won Village of the Year in 2010 and Anglia in Bloom award for Best Large Village 2011 for its floral displays in 2011.
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  • Type: Town with 1,980 residents
  • Description: town in West Suffolk, England
  • Also known as: “Clare, Suffolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ancient House, Clare and St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Clare.

Museum
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The Ancient House is a medieval timber-framed and partly pargeted building located in Clare in , England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Church
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St Peter and St Paul's Church, Clare is a Grade I listed in the Church of England in Clare, Suffolk. It is one of the largest in , and is included by Simon Jenkins in his 2009 book England's Thousand Best Churches, where he awards it three stars.

Art gallery
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is an art gallery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poslingford and Stoke-by-Clare.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of in eastern England, with a stream that feeds the into the Chilton stream and then the Suffolk Stour.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk located in the valley of the River Stour, about two miles west of Clare. In 1124 Richard de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford, moved the Benedictine Priory that had been established at his castle in Clare to .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Stour Valley in , England. is situated 2½ miles east of Clare.

Clare

Latitude
52.0793° or 52° 4′ 46″ north
Longitude
0.5821° or 0° 34′ 55″ east
Population
1,980
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
Open location code
9F423HHJ+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 89190780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2652941
Wiki­data ID
Q2559341
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Clare” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Clare”
  • Basque: “Clare (Suffolk)”
  • Basque: “Clare”
  • Cebuano: “Clare”
  • Chinese: “Clare”
  • Chinese: “克拉爾”
  • Chinese: “克萊爾”
  • Dutch: “Clare”
  • French: “Clare”
  • German: “Clare”
  • Irish: “Clare, Suffolk”
  • Irish: “Clare”
  • Italian: “Clare”
  • Japanese: “クレア”
  • Ladin: “Clare”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Clare (Suffolk)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clare”
  • Persian: “کلر، سافک”
  • Polish: “Clare”
  • Russian: “Клер”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلر، سافک”
  • Spanish: “Clare”
  • Swedish: “Clare, Suffolk”
  • Swedish: “Clare”
  • Turkish: “Clare, Suffolk”
  • Welsh: “Clare, Suffolk”
  • Welsh: “Clare”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Clare”. Photo: Sumitsurai, CC BY-SA 4.0.