Bures
Bures is a town with several features in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border. It is composed of both civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and also Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. The place is bisected by the River Stour, the region boundary from end of its estuary to near its resource. The town is most often referred to collectively, as Bures. On respective banks are 2 civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex as well as Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in region councils of those names and also in area councils, in the second rate of local government, (Braintree, as well as Babergh). The village presents a post community and also 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 eight bells with the biggest weighing 21 cwt. They were enhanced from 6 to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett as well as Johnston of Croydon. In regards to the clerical parish, and therefore history before the innovation of civil churches in the 1870s there is no division, conserve as to area; all falls under Bures St Mary, which extends to a comparable distance on each side of the river.