Bures
Bures is a village with many features in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk boundary. It is comprised of the two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. The area is bisected by the River Stour, the county limit from end of its tidewater to near its resource. The village is most often referred to jointly, as Bures. On particular financial institutions are two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and also Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in county councils of those names as well as in district councils, in the 2nd rate of city government, (Braintree, as well as Babergh). The village offers a post community and also its pre-1996 (outdated) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is served by a railway station on the Gainsborough Line, seen here in 1966. On the left financial institution is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the biggest considering 21 cwt. They were augmented from 6 to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and also Johnston of Croydon. In regards to the ecclesiastical parish, and also therefore background prior to the invention of civil parishes in the 1870s there is no division, conserve regarding area; all falls under Bures St Mary, which encompasses a comparable range on each side of the river.