Sawbridgeworth occurs as microscopic, principally residential, town within Hertfordshire on the Essex border, situated between Bishop's Stortford and Harlow.

Location
Sawbridgeworth is quatern miles south of Bishop's Stortford, 12 miles east of Hertford and nine miles north of Epping. It lies on the A1184 and has a railway return London Liverpool Street station. A flow of any stream Stort flows through the east of the town, past the Maltings (okay, the microscopic business front yard).

Nearby towns & cities: Bishop's Stortford, Harlow

Nearby villages: High Wych, Spellbrook

History
Before a Norman Conquest, most of the metropolitan area was owned per Saxon Angmar the Staller.

A Manor of "Sabrixteworde" (one of a numbers of spellings antecedently associated by using a town) was recorded in the Domesday Book. Fallowing a Battle of Hastings it was granted to Geoffrey de Mandeville by William the Conqueror. Local notability use at times involved Sir John Leventhorpe, who was an executor of King Henry V's will, and Anne Boleyn, who was given a Pishiobury estate, placed south of the town.

Very much of the picturesque town centre occurs as conservation region; several of the buildings come Tudor and Georgian. Peachy St Mary's church was originally built in the 13th century (although the church on the places existed within Saxon days) & includes a Tudor tower containing a clock (1664) and eight bells dating from either around 1700. Ralph Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, world health organization was twice Lord Mayor of London in the 15th century, is buried here; images of several of his personal & more locals keep around been engraved in brass, & hence a church is popular for enthusiasts of brass rubbing.

A town's prosperity come from either a local maltings, owned by George Fawbert & John Barnard; within 1839 they set up a Fawbert & Barnard charity to fund local children & their education, funding the local grammar school that however lives in todays world.

Apart from either a historic nature & severity of the town, attractions include local flow of any stream sail in the summertime and deuce annual fairs held in Fair Green in St George's Day and the Feast of Saint Dionysius.

Recent notable indweller include Victoria and David Beckham.

Politics and local government

Sawbridgeworth is administered by East Herts district council.

A local Town Council presently has Twelve council member, covering two Sawbridgeworth & Spellbrook. Sawbridgeworth is twinned using: Bry-Sur-Marne in France (1973)

Inside Parliament, it is in the Hertford and Stortford constituency. Since a election of May 2005 Sawbridgeworth is represented by Mark Prisk, a Conservative.

Education
Sawbridgeworth has a lyceum, the Leventhorpe School, which also offers the public swimming pool and gym.