Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. The village church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, is no longer in use as such, having become a private dwelling.
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Its name is believed to be derived from Shellow, meaning a bend in the river, and the Beaulieu family
It is located 6 miles (9.6km) to the west of Chelmsford, between the Villages of Willingale on its westerly border and Roxwell to the East. (However it is infamous locally for how difficult it is to find using SatNav)
It has been famously mentioned by Bill Bryson in Notes From A Small Island and Paul Theroux's The Kingdom By The Sea