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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mount Bures like this:
BURES-MOUNT, a parish in Lexden district, Essex; on the river Stour, adjacent to the Sudbury railway, near Bures station, 6 miles S by E of Sudbury. Post Town, Bures, under Colchester. Acres, 1,404. Real property, £2,479. Pop., 301. Houses, 57. An ancient artificial mound here, about 80 feet high, and of unknown origin, has a base of nearly 1½ acre. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £400.* Patron, the Rev. P. Brett.
Mount Bures is now part of COLCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how COLCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mount Bures itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mount Bures, in Colchester and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6563
Date accessed: 07th February 2026
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