STOKE-BY-CLARE, a parish, with a village, in Risbridge district, Suffolk; on the river Stour, and on the Sudbury and Cambridge railway, 2¼ miles WSW of Clare. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Sudbury. Acres, 2,361. Real property, £4,375. Pop., 863. Houses, 168. The manor belongs to J. E. Elwes, Esq. S. College was originally a Benedictine priory, founded in the time of the Confessor; became, in 1415, a collegiate church; and is now the seat of Major R. Bird. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £80.* Patron, Mrs. Rush. The church is later English and good. There are a national school, and charities £84. Archbishop Parker was dean of S. college.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))