Bures, England


Bures is a village with many amenities in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk border. It is made up of the two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk.

Division

The place is bisected by the River Stour, the county boundary from end of its estuary to near its source. The village is most often referred to collectively, as Bures. On respective banks are two civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each differ in county councils of those names and in district councils, in the second tier of local government,. The village presents a post town and its pre-1996 Postal County was Suffolk.

Landmarks and amenities

On the left bank is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the largest weighing 21 cwt. They were augmented from six to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical parish, and thus history before the invention of civil parishes in the 1870s there is no division, save as to county; all falls into Bures St Mary, which extends to a similar distance on each side of the river.
It is served by Bures railway station.
Bures United F.C. is a football team with several sides.