Sawbridgeworth is a village as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near 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 depth is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay set throughout the glacial period, including the Anglian. The dirt in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate located 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, situated in Station Road. It becomes part of Hertfordshire Fire and also Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has actually been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France because 1973. In Parliament, it is in the Hertford and also Stortford constituency. Since the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is stood for by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The town of Lower Sheering, throughout the region boundary in Essex, adjoins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the railway terminal and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for local government objectives is in the Epping Forest district of Essex.