Shellow Bowells
| Shellow Bowells | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 The converted parish church | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°44’46"N, -0°19’55"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Ongar |
| Postcode: | CM5 |
| Dialling code: | 01245 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Epping Forest |
Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and ancient parish in the Dunmow hundred of Essex. It is situated six miles to the west of Chelmsford, between the villages of Willingale on its westerly border and Roxwell on its east. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 95.[1]
Since 1946 the village has been part of the civil parish of Willingale.[2] The village name is believed to be derived from Shellow, meaning a bend in the river, and the Beaulieu family.
The village church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, is no longer in use as such, having become a private dwelling.
Shellow Bowells is mentioned by Bill Bryson in Notes From A Small Island and Paul Theroux's The Kingdom By The Sea. It is referred to as Shallow Bowells in Part Five of Random Harvest by James Hilton.[3]
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Shellow Bowells) |
- ↑ "Population Statistics Shellow Bowells AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10246556/cube/TOT_POP. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ↑ "Relationships and changes Shellow Bowells AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10246556. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ↑ James Hilton. "Random Harvest". gutenberg.net.au. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500341h.html. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
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