SHEERING, a parish in the hundred of HARLOW,
county of ESSEX, 3 miles (N. E.) from Harlow, containing
439 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £13. 13. 4., and in the
patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church,
Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.