Shellow Bowells
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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]
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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Population Statistics Shellow Bowells AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Shellow Bowells AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ James Hilton. "Random Harvest". gutenberg.net.au. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Shellow Bowells at Wikimedia Commons
(cities in italics)
- Aveley
- Basildon
- Billericay
- Braintree
- Brentwood
- Brightlingsea
- Buckhurst Hill
- Burnham-on-Crouch
- Canvey Island
- Chadwell St Mary
- Chelmsford
- Chigwell
- Chipping Ongar
- Clacton-on-Sea
- Coggeshall
- Colchester
- Corringham
- Dovercourt
- Epping
- Frinton-on-Sea
- Grays
- Great Dunmow
- Hadleigh
- Halstead
- Harlow
- Harwich
- Leigh-on-Sea
- Loughton
- Maldon
- Manningtree
- Pitsea
- Purfleet
- Rayleigh
- Rochford
- Saffron Walden
- Shoeburyness
- South Benfleet
- South Ockendon
- Southend-on-Sea
- South Woodham Ferrers
- Stanford-le-Hope
- Thaxted
- Thundersley
- Tilbury
- Waltham Abbey
- Walton-on-the-Naze
- West Mersea
- West Thurrock
- Wickford
- Witham
- Wivenhoe
See also: List of civil parishes in Essex