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

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.
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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.
- 01Gibberd 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 - 02Little 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 - 03Down 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 - 04St 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
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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 → Sheering39 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £4–6
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Sheering161 km · quickest by road, 3h · £19–25
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sheering157 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
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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.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Sheering
Sheering is 36 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sawbridgeworthtown and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Matchingvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK2.7 km
- Little Hallingburyvillage and civil parish in Essex, England, UK3.5 km
- Hatfield Heathvillage in Essex, England, UK1.9 km
- Matching Tyevillage in Essex, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Housham Tyehamlet in Essex, England, UK3.2 km