Bures is a town with numerous amenities in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk boundary. It is made up of both civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex as well as Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. The location is bisected by the River Stour, the region border from end of its estuary to near its resource. The town is most often referred to jointly, as Bures. On corresponding banks are 2 civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex as well as Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in county councils of those names as well as in area councils, in the second tier of local government, (Braintree, as well as Babergh). The town provides a post town and its pre-1996 (obsolete) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is offered by a railway station on the Gainsborough Line, seen here in 1966. On the left bank is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin real estate 8 bells with the largest evaluating 21 cwt. They were enhanced from six to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and also Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical parish, and hence background prior to the innovation of civil parishes in the 1870s there is no division, save regarding region; all falls under Bures St Mary, which encompasses a similar distance on each side of the river.