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Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Sawbridgeworth. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Garden waste in Sawbridgeworth! No problem with a skip

Garden waste can mount up at an alarming rate, and one of the worst things about it is that as it degrades over time, it makes more of a mess in the garden. It will blow everywhere, contaminating ponds and causing slippery pathways. It can cause soggy patches on lawns if left for too long, as well as attracting rodents to your garden.

The garden waste bins provided by many councils are simply not big enough to cope with a decent sized garden waste material, and let's face it, the price of them has increased considerably. Some argue that over the course of a year, they still present good value for money, but when one considers that they are generally only used during the growing season, one is not paying for a full years use, merely a few short months worth.

Not only are they small and expensive, a decent sized hedge when clipped will overwhelm one, and that's before you've even made a start on the grass and pruning jobs that need doing. Sure, you could invest in a compost bin, but you will need room to site one, preferably out of sight and they do tend to attract rodents, particularly if you dispose of organic kitchen waste in them.

The solution is to hire a skip for your Sawbridgeworth property. A skip will take care of a huge amount of garden waste and more besides. The beauty of a hired skip is that you can also avoid those time consuming and tedious trips back and forth to the local tip. Let's be honest, your free time is precious and in short supply, so why waste it sitting in a queue at the local tip when you could be sipping a nice cool drink in a clean and tidy garden?

Where is Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth adjoins the border between Hertfordshire and Essex. The village of Lower Sheering is across the county boundary into Essex, and adjoins Sawbridgeworth along its eastern edge, east of the railway station and of the River Stort. It has a Sawbridgeworth postal address, but is in the Epping Forest District of Essex.

Sawbridgeworth history

Prior to the Norman Conquest, most of the Sawbridgeworth area was owned by the Anglo-Saxon Angmar the Staller.

The Manor of "Sabrixteworde", which is one of the many spellings previously associated with Sawbridgeworth, was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Battle of Hastings it was granted to Geoffrey de Mandeville I by William the Conqueror as a reward for his services to the conquering monarch. Local notables have included John Leventhorpe, an executor of both King Henry IV and King Henry V's wills, and Anne Boleyn, who was given the Pishiobury estate, located to the south of Sawbridgeworth.

Royal connections to Sawbridgeworth

Anne Boleyn, who lived from 1501 to 1536, was the ill fated second wife of King Henry VIII. She held Pishiobury until her execution for a series of what are now believed to be trumped up charges of infidelity and incest with her brother. Perhaps her only crime was not providing Henry with a son and heir.

Pishiobury, sometimes spelled Pishobury, was a gorgeous manor and estate in medieval Sawbridgeworth. Its denomination as "Pishiobury" only emerged in the mid to late 19th century.

This sub-manor of Pishiobury originated in a grant of seventy four pieces of land art set within the Manor of Sawbridgeworth in Braughing Hundred, which Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, who died in 1144, made to Warin FitzGerold and Henry FitzGerold to hold by service of one Knight for each twenty such earthworks. Henry survived his brother, but his niece Margaret FitzGerold inherited Pishiobury. She had married in 1200 Baldwin de Redvers, son of William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, and in 1228 she levied a fine with William de Saye by which it was agreed that William and his heirs were to have free warren, a hunting right, throughout Sawbridgeworth.

The Great Hyde Hall mansion and surrounding land in Sawbridgeworth was acquired by Sir Walter Lawrence, the master builder, in the 1920s. In 1934, he instituted the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest century in county cricket. He built a cricket ground and pavilion in the grounds where the great and the good of the cricket world came to play against Sir Walter's home team, which often included his three sons: Jim, Guy and Pat. Sir Walter also had two daughters: Molly and Gipsy. Great Hyde Hall was sold in 1945 and became a school. It is a Grade II listed building and has now been divided into housing.

Much of Sawbridgeworth town centre is a conservation area; many of the buildings date from the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian periods.

Great St Mary's Church in Sawbridgeworth is a Grade I listed building; "of special interest as a substantially unaltered large medieval parish church, typical of the Hertfordshire type, and with an outstanding collection of memorials of the highest artistic quality". It was built in the 13th century and includes a Tudor tower containing a clock bell and eight ringing bells, the oldest of which dates from 1749. It is thought to be called 'Great' St Mary's to distinguish it from St Mary's, Gilston. Ralph Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1464 and in 1476, is buried here; images of many of his family and other locals have been engraved on brass, and the church is popular for enthusiasts of brass rubbing. The ghost of Sir John Jocelyn, known for his love of horses, is reputed to appear riding a white horse on the old carriage drive every 1 November.

Industries of Sawbridgeworth

The prosperity of Sawbridgeworth came from the maltings, some of which now house antiques centres. Among the maltsters were George Fawbert and John Barnard; in 1839 they set up the Fawbert and Barnard charity to fund local children and their education, funding a local infant school that still exists today.

By the time of the Norman Conquest, or soon after, Sawbridgeworth's rich and fertile farming land was fully developed for cultivation as was possible with the means available at the time: it was the richest village community in the county. Many important medieval families had estates here. The land was divided among them, into a number of manors or distinct estates; the lord of each manor had rights not only over this land but also over the people who farmed it. The number of manors increased during the Middle Ages, by a process of subinfeudation, which is the granting out of a part of an existing manor to a new owner so that the new manor was created. Many manors sprang from the original Domesday Book holding of the de Mandeville family. The first came to be called Sayesbury manor, from the de Say family who inherited it from the de Mandevilles in 1189. The many important people who held these Sawbridgeworth manors built themselves houses with hunting parks around them; when they died their tombs enriched the parish church, so that today St Mary's in Sawbridgeworth has one of the finest collections of church monuments in the country.

Sawbridgeworth and the War effort

During the Second World War RAF Sawbridgeworth, which is not in the civil parish, operated Supermarine Spitfires, Westland Lysander, North American Mustangs and de Havilland Mosquito, among other types. The Walter Lawrence & Son Ltd joinery works, located between the canal and the railway, built over one thousand Mosquito fuselage shells and wing skins for de Havilland during the Second World War. Subsequently, it reverted to making joinery and doors for the building trade. The joinery works was closed in about 1982 and houses were built on the site.

Sawbridgeworth was the birthplace of composer Bernard Rose, who lived from 1916 to 1996.

Sawbridgeworth has been twinned with Bry-sur-Marne in France since 1973, and Moosburg an der Isar in Germany since 2018.

A clean up in Sawbridgeworth made easy with a hired skip

If you live in or around the Sawbridgeworth area and want to clear the decks of all your garden waste and other rubbish, a skip hired from us is the perfect choice. We go out of our way to deliver the correct sized skip for your requirements and we do it at a time and date to suit you. When it comes to pick up day, we will take away your waste and recycle ninety five percent of the waste. Garden waste will go to composting, so you can rest assured that nothing you throw into one of our skips will end up going into environmentally damaging land fill.

Make your Sawbridgeworth property the envy of your neighbours with a clean and tidy garden, achieved with a little help from our skip hire company.

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Sawbridgeworth:

• Skip Hire
• Waste Recycling
• Waste Management
• Envirowaste Recycling Centre
• Waste Disposal
• Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
• Licensed Waste Carriers
• Environment Agency Approved
• Skip Permits Arranged
• Same Day Drop Off and Collection
• Aggregates For Sale

Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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