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Bures
Bures is a village with several features in eastern England that straddles the Essex/Suffolk boundary. It is composed 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 boundary from end of its tidewater to near its source. The village is usually described collectively, as Bures. On respective financial institutions are 2 civil parishes: Bures Hamlet in Essex and Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. Each vary in region councils of those names and also in district councils, in the 2nd tier of local government, (Braintree, as well as Babergh). The village presents a post town and also its pre-1996 (out-of-date) Postal County was Suffolk. Bures is served by a train station on the Gainsborough Line, seen below in 1966. On the left bank is the medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin housing eight bells with the biggest weighing 21 cwt. They were augmented from six to 8 bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. In terms of the ecclesiastical parish, and also hence history prior to the development of civil churches in the 1870s there is no division, conserve regarding county; all comes under Bures St Mary, which includes a comparable range on each side of the river.