Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) east of Hertford and also 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of Epping. Underlying the community at some depth is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay laid down throughout the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The dirt in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate found around the town. Sawbridgeworth is governed by Hertfordshire Region Council, as well as belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of administration, with a region council and area councils. The community council presently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its very own on-call fire station, located in Station Road. It is part of Hertfordshire Fire as well as Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France given that 1973. In Parliament, it is 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, across the county boundary in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, east of the railway station and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but for local government functions remains in the Epping Forest district of Essex.