Full list of Clarks stores that have closed this year as two more bite the dust

Several Clarks shops across the country have closed over the past couple of years (Picture: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Historic shoe retailer Clarks is closing two more stores this month.

The firm will shut its store in March, Cambridgeshire tomorrow and a branch in the North Yorkshire town of Gowthorpe, Selby on June 14.

It follows the closure of several other Clarks branches up and down the country over the past couple of years.

The most recent was on King Street in Jersey’s capital, St Helier, which shut on July 27 after 24 years of trading, the Sun reports.

Before that, in June, the Clarks store in Stroud pulled its shutters down for the final time.

Altogether, including the two upcoming closures, nine branches will have closed in 2024. In 2023 at least nine stores shut down.

Staff in at the Selby shop thanked its shoppers for their support over the years, the York Press reports.

They said: ‘We’d like to thank our loyal customers who have shopped with us at these stores, and we’ll be delighted to continue to serve them with our full range of products online and at our nearby Clarks stores in York, Monks Cross and Wakefield.’

The Clarks shops that are closing or are soon to close are shown on our interactive map above and in the list below:

Grove Shopping Centre, Witham – January 13, 2024
Saddlers Shopping Centre, Walsall – February 10, 2024
East Grinstead – March 24, 2024
Abingdon, Oxfordshire – April 22, 2024
Marlborough High Street – April 22, 2024
Stroud – June 2024
St Helier – July 27, 2024
March – September 4, 2024
Selby – September 14, 2024

The Clarks shops that closed in 2023 and the end of 2022:

Kent in Ashford – end of 2022
Gillingham – end of 2022
Murraygate, Dundee – July 25, 2023
Fareham Shopping Centre, Hampshire – August 5, 2023
High Street, Inverness – end of September, 2023
Grimsby – end of October, 2023
Newport Retail Park – November, 2023
Riverside Shopping Centre, Norwich – November, 2023
Westwood Cross Shopping – mid-November, 2023
High Street, Newcastle – November 2023
Bicester Village, Oxfordshire – December 31, 2023
The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland – date unknown

Clarks still has around 300 stores in the UK and has launched new branches including in Newcastle’s Eldon Square shopping, which opened last May.

The brand was set up by brothers Cyrus and James Clark almost 200 years ago, in 1825

The pair’s first product was a slipper crafted from sheepskin offcuts.

There are around 300 Clarks stores remaining across the country (Picture: AFP or licensors)

Other closures on the high street

Clarks isn’t the only retailer to shut several of its branches over the past couple of years.

Pharmacy chain Boots closed around 300 outlets this summer as part of a massive cost cutting exercise.

Walgreens Boots Alliance, the US parent company of Boots, said in a financial statement last June they would be closing ‘up to 650’ outlets within the following 12 months.

The plans are currently a little behind the initially-envisioned schedule.

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Last year Wilko went into administration, with all its stores closing, but the brand was later bought by CDS Superstores, which owns The Range.

Six new Wilko shops have since opened, with branches in Plymouth, Exeter, Luton, St Albans, Rotherham and Poole.

There are reportedly plans to open around 300 more.

Meanwhile, the Body Shop announced it was closing 75 shops in February after going into administration, while Ted Baker shut all of its 31 stores this year.

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