Bures
Bures is a village 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 location is bisected by the River Stour, the area limit from end of its estuary to near its source. The town is most often referred to jointly, as Bures. On corresponding banks are two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in area councils of those names and in district councils, in the 2nd tier of city government, (Braintree, and also Babergh). The village provides a post community and its pre-1996 (outdated) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is served by a train station on the Gainsborough Line, seen below in 1966. On the left financial institution is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing 8 bells with the largest evaluating 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 hence history prior to the innovation of civil parishes in the 1870s there is no department, save regarding area; all comes under Bures St Mary, which extends to a similar distance on each side of the river.
