Council. Notable people Elizabeth Mary Wells (1863–1922), missionary and doctor, was born in Clare. Demography According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011, Clare had a population of 2,028. Population change {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;width:70%;border:0px;text-align:center;line-height:120%;" ! colspan="11" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|Population growth in Clare from 1801 to 1891 |- ! style="background: #99CCCC; color: #000080" height="17" | Year ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1801 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1811 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1821 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1831 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1841 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1851 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1881 ! style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000080;" | 1891 |- Align="center" ! style="background: #99CCCC; color: #000080" height="17" | Population | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,033 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,170 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,487 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,619 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,700 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,769 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,704 | style="background: #FFFFFF; color: black;" | 1,657 |- | colspan="11" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"|<small>'Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time</small> |} Location grid References Books Much of the material in this article, particularly of an architectural or historical nature, is taken from the following: David Hatton, Clare, Suffolk, an account of historical features of the town, its Priory and its Parish Church, 1994; revised 2006 Quotations are separately referenced. Another useful source is Gladys Thornton, A History of Clare, Suffolk (Heffer, 1928). Her work principally covers the history of the town from the 14th to the 17th centuries and includes a master list of sources. A comprehensive history of the Clare lords is Paul Davis's Three Chevrons Red, The Clares: A Marcher Dynasty in Wales, England and Ireland, Logaston Press, 2013, . An invaluable book on the religious life of ordinary people, especially the guilds, up to the 1540s is Eamonn Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars, Yale University Press, 1992, . Citations from these books are separately referenced. Pashler's Lane: A Clare Childhood (2002), by Elizabeth Holdgate, is an illustrated autobiography of life in 1930s Clare. The baker's shop where she lived, on the corner of Pashler's Alley, is now a curiosity shop. The alley links Market Hill with the High Street; below the premises is a 14th-century vaulted cellar with a central orthogonal pillar. The Habit of Murder'' (2017), by Susanna Gregory, is