No. you are being sharp-eyed. There were a couple of stray capitilisations of Bures and Fordham in the Routesheet that suggested they were still on the route. Now corrected on the aukweb version.
Countess Cross is a hamlet of Pebmarsh. Basically it is the fork in the road before the fork we took previously. JiberJaber will be there stamping cards and ensuring that everyone goes the correct way.
It does make the route a bit more laney, whereas the original intention was to stay on mainly gritted roads. It does, however, avoid the busy road out of Bures and also Fiddlers Hill after Fordham which always felt like a close pass hotspot. We all thought it was an improvement when we rode the route check on Saturday. There is also a slight change after you cross over the A12 into Colchester. The route used to go through a fairly busy roundabout but now follows a cycle route through a housing estate before rejoining the original route on Church Lane, it is slightly more convoluted but much more pleasant on a busy Saturday.