# Sheering

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Village in Essex, England

Not to be confused with [Shearing](/source/Shearing_(disambiguation)).

Human settlement in England

Sheering Church of St Mary the Virgin, Sheering Sheering Location within Essex Population 3,133 (Parish, 2021)[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 village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in the [Epping Forest](/source/Epping_Forest_District) district of [Essex](/source/Essex), England. The village is situated 2.8 miles (5 km) north-east from [Harlow](/source/Harlow), 4.5 miles (7 km) south of [Bishop's Stortford](/source/Bishop's_Stortford) and 25 miles (40 km) north-east from London. The [Stort Navigation](/source/Stort_Navigation) to the west has a lock at Sheering Mill. [Lower Sheering](/source/Lower_Sheering), adjacent to [Sawbridgeworth](/source/Sawbridgeworth) in Hertfordshire and its [railway station](/source/Sawbridgeworth_railway_station), forms part of the civil parish. At the [2021 census](/source/2021%E2%80%932022_United_Kingdom_censuses) the parish had a population of 3,133.

There is a [Church of England](/source/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](/source/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Epping_Forest_(district)).

## See also

- [Harry Goschen](/source/Harry_Goschen), baronet of Durrington House in the Parish of Sheering and County of Essex

- [Steve Harris (musician)](/source/Steve_Harris_(musician)) of Iron Maiden

- [The Hundred Parishes](/source/The_Hundred_Parishes)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2021census_1-0)** ["2021 Census Parish Profiles"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp). *NOMIS*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin (Grade I) (1146947)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146947?section=official-list-entry). *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*.

## External links

- Media related to [Sheering](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sheering) at Wikimedia Commons

- [Sheering Village website](http://www.sheering.org.uk)

v t e Epping Forest District Parishes Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Bobbingworth Buckhurst Hill Chigwell Epping Epping Upland Fyfield High Laver and Little Laver High Ongar Lambourne Loughton Magdalen Laver Matching Moreton Nazeing North Weald Bassett Ongar Roydon Sheering Stanford Rivers Stapleford Abbotts Stapleford Tawney Theydon Bois Theydon Garnon Theydon Mount Waltham Abbey Willingale Other notable settlements Abridge Chipping Ongar Clatterford End Colliers Hatch Epping Green Fiddlers Hamlet Foster Street Greensted Hastingwood Housham Tye Lower Sheering Marden Ash Matching Green Matching Tye Newman's End Shelley Tawney Common Threshers Bush Thornwood Toot Hill Attractions Epping Forest (woodland) Epping Ongar Railway Greensted Church North Weald Airfield Constituencies Epping Forest Brentwood and Ongar

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