Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a small town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near 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 laid down during the glacial period, consisting of the Anglian. The dirt on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone corporation located around the town. Sawbridgeworth is controlled by Hertfordshire Area Council, as well as belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of administration, with a county council and area councils. The community council presently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its very own on-call station house, located 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 since 1973. In Parliament, it is in the Hertford as well as Stortford constituency. Since the election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The town of Lower Sheering, throughout the region boundary in Essex, joins Sawbridgeworth, east of the railway station and also the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses however, for local government purposes remains in the Epping Forest area of Essex.