Bures
Bures is a town with lots of features in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk boundary. It is composed 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 county boundary from end of its tidewater to near its source. The village is usually referred to jointly, as Bures. On respective banks are 2 civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in region councils of those names and also in district councils, in the 2nd tier of city government, (Braintree, and also Babergh). The town offers a post community and also its pre-1996 (outdated) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is offered by a train station on the Gainsborough Line, seen right here in 1966. On the left bank is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the largest evaluating 21 cwt. They were enhanced from six to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the clerical church, as well as hence history before the invention of civil churches in the 1870s there is no department, save as to area; all falls into Bures St Mary, which encompasses a similar range on each side of the river.