Sawbridgeworth is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Hertford and also 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of Epping. Underlying the town at some depth is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay put down during the ice ages, consisting of the Anglian. The dirt in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate discovered around the community. Sawbridgeworth is governed by Hertfordshire Area Council, in addition to becoming part of East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with a county council as well as district councils. The town council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call station house, positioned in Station Road. It becomes part of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has actually been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France since 1973. In Parliament, it remains in the Hertford as well as Stortford constituency. Because the election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The town of Lower Sheering, throughout the region limit in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the train terminal and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for city government objectives is in the Epping Forest area of Essex.