Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a village as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Hertford and 9 miles (14 km) north of Epping. Underlying the town at some deepness is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay set during the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The soil in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate found around the community. Sawbridgeworth is governed by Hertfordshire County Council, along with being part of East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of administration, with a region council as well as district councils. The community council presently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth as well as Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call station house, situated in Station Roadway. It becomes part of Hertfordshire Fire and also Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France given that 1973. In Parliament, it is in the Hertford and also Stortford constituency. Since the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, across the region boundary in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the railway station and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for city government functions remains in the Epping Forest area of Essex.