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Sheering

Sheering is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

Sheering
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The place

Sheering is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The 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. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 3,133.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sheering

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Gibberd Garden

    Gibberd Garden is a garden in Harlow, Essex, England, which was created by Sir Frederick Gibberd and his wife Patricia Gibberd. They designed the garden and added sculptures, ceramic pots, and architectural salvage from 1972 till his death in 1984.

    2.8 km · garden in Essex, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Little Hallingbury Marsh

    Little Hallingbury Marsh is a 4.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest adjacent to the River Stort, west of Little Hallingbury in Essex. It was notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Uttlesford District Council.

    3.5 km · biological site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Down Hall

    Down Hall is a Victorian country house and estate near Hatfield Heath in the English county of Essex, close to its border with Hertfordshire. It is surrounded by 110 acres of woodland, parkland and landscaped gardens, some of which is protected by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

    1.8 km · house in Hatfield Heath, Uttlesford, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary & St Hugh, Old Harlow

    St Mary & St Hugh's Church is a Church of England parish church in Churchgate Street, Old Harlow in Essex, England. The church is of medieval origin and was given Grade II listed status on 5 July 1950.

    3.5 km · church in Old Harlow, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Sheering

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 10 km · London Luton (LTN), 39 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 58 km
Stations
Sawbridgeworth railway station, 2 km · Harlow Mill railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Sheering
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £4–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sheering
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h · £19–25
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sheering
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sheering

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sheering. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    162 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    363 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    581 km

If you know how people move in Sheering – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sheering

Sheering is 36 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.