The parish of Mount Bures takes its name from the `mount` or mound, which stands in the centre of the village and `bur`, meaning cottage or dwelling. The village resides in Essex with its boundary extending to the River Stour to the north and Wakes Colne to the south.

Mount Bures was sometimes called Bures St John, Little Bures or Bures Sackville, to distinguish it from Bures Hamlet and Bures St Mary.
Today, Mount Bures is the adopted modern name.

The railway line opened in 1848 which runs through the parish from south to north.
The nearest rail station is at Bures.

Since the web site was launched in 2003, the response from visitors has been enormous. Unfortunately, the book (Mount Bures it`s Lands and People) written by Ida McMaster is now out of print and no longer available, but it`s still in great demand with many enquiries seeking a supplier. The vast majority of emails received are from relatives who have moved away or from historians requesting genealogy material.
We have received requests from a variety of sources such as the University of Liverpool in the UK to Oklahoma in the USA. It would seem from a lot of researchers that Mount Bures is quite unique, in that it has remained untouched from development perhaps since the Saxon times.