Sawbridgeworth is a small town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Hertford as well as 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 set during the ice ages, including the Anglian. The soil in addition to this is a loam, with erratics of Hertfordshire puddingstone corporation located around the town. Sawbridgeworth is regulated by Hertfordshire County Council, in addition to belonging to East Hertfordshire District Council. Hertfordshire has a two-tier system of management, with a county council and also area councils. The community council currently has 12 councillors, covering both Sawbridgeworth and Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth has its very own on-call fire station, located in Station Road. It belongs to Hertfordshire Fire and also 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. Given that the election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative. The village of Lower Sheering, across the county limit in Essex, adjoins Sawbridgeworth, eastern of the train terminal as well as the River Stort. It has Sawbridgeworth postal addresses but for local government purposes is in the Epping Forest area of Essex.