Shellow Bowells

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Shellow Bowells
Essex
Church conversion, Shellow Bowells, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 138116.jpg
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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