Sawbridgeworth is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the border with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 km) east of Hertford and 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 set during the glacial period, including the Anglian. The dirt on top of this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone conglomerate discovered around the town. Sawbridgeworth is regulated 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 district councils. The community council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its own on-call fire station, situated in Station Road. 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 Stortford constituency. Given that the political election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, throughout the area boundary in Essex, adjoins 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.