Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the

Epping Forest District Epping Forest is a local government district in Essex, England. Situated in the west of the county, bordering northeastern Greater London, it is named after, and contains a large part of, Epping Forest. The district, though wholly within the c ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, England. It is situated to the west of

Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It ...

, between the villages of Willingale on its westerly border and Roxwell on its east. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 95. Since 1946 the village has been part of the civil parish of Willingale. 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

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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 ''Random Harvest'' is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including '' Lost Horizon'' and '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips'', the novel was immensely popular, placing second on ''Publishers Weekly'' li ...

'' by James Hilton.

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* Villages in Essex Former civil parishes in Essex Epping Forest District {{Essex-geo-stub