Sawbridgeworth is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near to the border with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Hertford as well as 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 put down during the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The dirt in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate found around the community. Sawbridgeworth is controlled by Hertfordshire County Council, in addition to being part of East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with an area council and also area 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 Roadway. It becomes 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 also Stortford constituency. Since the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, throughout the area boundary in Essex, adjoins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the railway station as well as the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but also for local government objectives remains in the Epping Forest district of Essex.