Suffolk
Babergh District
Bures St Mary

Bures

Bures is a village in eastern England that straddles the / border, made up of two civil parishes: in Essex and in Suffolk. In 2011 it had a population of 1433.
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  • Type: Village with 1,430 residents
  • Description: village in Suffolk, England and Essex, England
  • Also known as: “Bures Saint Mary”, “Bures St. Mary”, “Bures, England”, “Bures, Essex”, and “Bures, Suffolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bures St Mary and Bures railway station.

Church
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is on the Gainsborough Line, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line to , in the , serving the village of Bures, which straddles the counties of Essex and Suffolk.

Pub
Photo: John Myers, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bures Green and Lamarsh.

Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet.

Village
is a village and a civil parish in the , in the county of , England. It is near the large village of Bures and the village of . is situated 1½ miles northwest of Bures.

Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Assington is a village in , England, 4 miles south-east of . At the 2011 Census it had a population of 402, estimated at 445 in 2019. The parish includes the hamlets of Rose Green and . is situated 2 miles northeast of Bures.

Bures

Latitude
51.97115° or 51° 58′ 16″ north
Longitude
0.77635° or 0° 46′ 35″ east
Population
1,430
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BEU
Open location code
9F32XQCG+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288530624
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2654313
Wiki­data ID
Q2315726
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Bures” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bures”
  • Cebuano: “Bures, Inglatera”
  • Chinese: “比尔斯”
  • Dutch: “Bures”
  • French: “Bures”
  • German: “Bures (England)”
  • German: “Bures”
  • Irish: “Bures”
  • Italian: “Bures”
  • Latin: “Bura”
  • Persian: “بورس، انگلستان”
  • Persian: “بورس”
  • Polish: “Bures”
  • Spanish: “Bures (Essex)”
  • Spanish: “Bures”
  • Swedish: “Bures, England”
  • Swedish: “Bures”
  • Welsh: “Bures, Lloegr”

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Highlights include Bures Post Office and Bures Community Centre.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bures”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.