Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) eastern 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 throughout the ice ages, including the Anglian. The soil on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate discovered around the town. Sawbridgeworth is regulated by Hertfordshire Region Council, as well as 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 community council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth as well as Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call fire station, positioned in Station Road. It becomes part of Hertfordshire Fire as well as Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has actually been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France because 1973. In Parliament, it remains in the Hertford and also Stortford constituency. Given that the election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, throughout the area limit in Essex, adjoins Sawbridgeworth, east of the train terminal and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but for city government functions is in the Epping Forest district of Essex.
