BURES ST. MARY
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
BURES-ST. MARY, a parish in the district of Sudbury and counties of Essex and Suffolk.; on the river Stour and on the Sudbury railway, at Bures station, 5 miles SSE of Sudbury. It contains the hamlet of Bures, which has a post-office under Colchester. Acres, 4,131. Real property, £9,201. Pop., 1,659. Houses, 369. The property is much sub-divided. Edmund, king of East Anglia, is said to have been crowned here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £273. Patron, O. Hanbury, Esq. The church is ancient; and contains an effegies (sic) of a Cornard, and monuments of the Bures and the Wadegraves; and is good. Charities, £10.
Transcribed by Noel Clark