Sheering

Sheering
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Sheering
Sheering Location within Essex
Population	2,838 [1]
Civil parish	Sheering
District	Epping Forest
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BISHOP'S STORTFORD
Postcode district	CM22
Dialling code	01279
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Harlow
List of places UK England Essex 51°48′16″N 0°11′04″E / 51.80431°N 0.18451°E / 51.80431; 0.18451

Sheering is a civil parish and village in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. Sheering village is situated 2.8 miles (5 km) north-east from Harlow, 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Bishop's Stortford and 25 miles (40 km) north-east from London. The Stort Navigation to the west has a lock at Sheering Mill. Lower Sheering, adjacent to Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire and its railway station, forms part of the civil parish.

Sheering village has approximately 350 households. There is a Church of England primary school and a public house - The Cock Inn, a general store with a post office, a sandwich shop and a hairdresser's.

Bus services connect Sheering to Harlow and Chelmsford.

The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin on Church Lane, Sheering is a Grade I listed building.^[2] Four other buildings in the parish are Grade II* listed.

• Harry Goschen, baronet of Durrington House in the Parish of Sheering and County of Essex
• Steve Harris (musician) of Iron Maiden
• The Hundred Parishes

• Media related to Sheering at Wikimedia Commons
• Sheering Village website