Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a small town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) 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 set throughout the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The dirt on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone empire located around the town. Sawbridgeworth is controlled by Hertfordshire Region Council, in addition to belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with an area council as well as area councils. The town council presently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its very own on-call fire station, positioned in Station Road. It is part of Hertfordshire Fire as well as Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France since 1973. In Parliament, it remains in the Hertford and Stortford constituency. Given that the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, throughout the county limit in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, east of the railway terminal and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for city government purposes is in the Epping Forest area of Essex.
