Description
Bures, a township in the Essex part of Bures-St-Mary parish, which is for the most part in Suffolk, lies on the river Stour, with a station on the G.E.R., 5 miles SSE from Sudbury. Colchester is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Bures-St-Mary. Acreage, 1846; population, 500. Mailing and brickmaking are carried on.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
