Bures
Bures is a town with many features in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border. It is made up 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 border from end of its tidewater to near its source. The town is usually referred to jointly, as Bures. On particular financial institutions are 2 civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex as well as Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each differ in area councils of those names and also in district councils, in the 2nd tier of city government, (Braintree, and also Babergh). The village offers a post community and also its pre-1996 (obsolete) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is served 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 real estate 8 bells with the biggest weighing 21 cwt. They were augmented from 6 to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical church, and hence background before the creation of civil churches in the 1870s there is no division, save as to region; all falls under Bures St Mary, which includes a similar distance on each side of the river.