Shellow Bowells

Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Willingale, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) 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]

Shellow Bowells
The converted parish church
Shellow Bowells Location within Essex
Civil parish	Willingale
District	Epping Forest
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Essex 51.746°N 0.332°E / 51.746; 0.332

On 1 April 1946 the parish was abolished to form Willingale.^[2] The village name is believed^{[by whom?]} 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.^{[citation needed]} It is referred to as Shallow Bowells in Part Five of Random Harvest by James Hilton.^[3]