Clavering lies 20 miles (32 km) south of Cambridge on the River Stort, close to the border with Hertfordshire.

[3] Clavering has a primary school and large village shop with the post office being on Stortford Road, and there is a long-established garden centre/nursery on Hill Green called FW Whyman.

Village clubs and societies include Clavering Players, an amateur drama company that began life in 1945 as Cheerio's Concert Party.

Chef and TV presenter Jamie Oliver comes from Clavering, and lived there until he sold his property to Daisy Ridley in 2019.

Both pubs attract people from nearby villages such as Arkesden, Wicken Bonhunt and Langley Upper Green, as well as Clavering residents.

[9][10] Samuel Herbert Dougal was hanged for the crime yet Sarah escaped all scrutiny and disappeared from all records from that time onward.

However, in 2019 the conviction was deemed unsafe by the BBC TV programme Murder, Mystery and My Family, during which, the barrister acting for the prosecution advised the judge that Sarah should not have been found guilty.

This case influenced a change in the law on selling arsenic, requiring vendors to make a note of the purchaser's name, address and reason for needing poison.

[14] Clavering parish is within the local government district of Uttlesford and the North West Essex Parliamentary constituency.