Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near to the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Hertford and 9 miles (14 km) north of Epping. Underlying the community at some deepness is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay set during the glacial period, including the Anglian. The soil on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate found around the community. Sawbridgeworth is governed by Hertfordshire County Council, in addition to belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with a county council and also area councils. The town council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call fire station, located in Station Road. It is part of Hertfordshire Fire and also Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has actually been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France considering that 1973. In Parliament, it remains in the Hertford and also Stortford constituency. Considering that the election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, across the area limit in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, east of the train terminal and also the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for local government purposes is in the Epping Forest area of Essex.