Sawbridgeworth is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the boundary with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Hertford and 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of Epping. Underlying the town at some deepness is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay laid down during the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The dirt in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone corporation located around the town. Sawbridgeworth is governed by Hertfordshire Region Council, along with becoming part of East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with an area council and district councils. The community council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its very own on-call fire station, located in Station Roadway. It becomes part of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France since 1973. In Parliament, it is in the Hertford as well as Stortford constituency. Because the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The town of Lower Sheering, across the county boundary in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the train station as well as the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but also for city government objectives is in the Epping Forest area of Essex.