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Details from the Domesday Book
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Sheering have their own website which you can visit by clicking on this link:
www.sheering.org.uk Happy viewing Sheering Village and Lower Sheering The civil Parish of Sheering is approximately five miles from Harlow, seven miles from the market town of Bishop's Stortford and fifteen miles from the Essex county town of Chelmsford. The name Sheering is probably derived from Anglo-Saxon for "settlement of the people of Scir". There are several early moated sites on either side of The Street in Sheering Village. In the Domesday Book of 1087, Sheering appears as a substantial settlement with 32 acres of meadow, woodland for 100 swine, a mill, and the unusual distinction of possessing a mule - one of the only two mules mentioned anywhere in the book. Today, Sheering Village has about 350 households, a pre-school, a primary school, 2 pubs, one of which is a hotel, a general store cum post office, a hairdresser, a butcher's shop and church. St Mary's is a Norman building which contains numerous Roman bricks, a unique roof beam which is 40ft long and a wonderful 14th Century stained glass window. Lower Sheering, the manor of Cowicks (Quickbury) in the Domesday book, has about 1100 households and lies in the Stort Valley adjoining the town of Sawbridgeworth. It has a number of businesses in The Maltings and a hotel close to Sawbridgeworth Station. It is also reputed to have one of the oldest trees in the country, an oak which is estimated to be around 1,000 years old.
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