Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a small town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Hertford as well as 9 miles (14 km) north of Epping. Underlying the community at some depth is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay put down during the glacial epoch, including the Anglian. The dirt on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate discovered around the community. Sawbridgeworth is controlled by Hertfordshire County Council, along with belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of administration, with an area council and area councils. The town council presently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth as well as Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call station house, situated in Station Roadway. It is part of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Sawbridgeworth has actually been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France considering that 1973. In Parliament, it is in the Hertford as well as Stortford constituency. Since the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The town of Lower Sheering, throughout the region boundary in Essex, adjoins Sawbridgeworth, east of the railway station and the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but also for city government objectives remains in the Epping Forest area of Essex.
