Bures is a village with numerous services in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border. It is comprised of the two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex as well as Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. The place is bisected by the River Stour, the region boundary from end of its estuary to near its source. The town is frequently described collectively, as Bures. On respective banks are two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and also Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each differ in area councils of those names as well as in district councils, in the 2nd tier of local government, (Braintree, and Babergh). The village presents a post community and its pre-1996 (outdated) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is served by a railway station on the Gainsborough Line, seen below in 1966. On the left financial institution is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the largest evaluating 21 cwt. They were enhanced from 6 to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and also Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical church, as well as thus background before the invention of civil churches in the 1870s there is no department, conserve regarding county; all falls into Bures St Mary, which extends to a similar range on each side of the river.