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Shellow Bowells

Shellow Bowells is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Willingale, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England.

The place

Shellow Bowells is a small hamlet in the civil 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 to the west and Roxwell to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shellow Bowells

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Newney Green Pit

    Newney Green Pit is a 0.07-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Writtle in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Andrew's Church, Willingale

    St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Willingale, Essex, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.5 km · church in Willingale Spain, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Shellow Bowells

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 17 km · London Luton (LTN), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km
Stations
RAF Chipping Ongar, 3.8 km
  • London → Shellow Bowells
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Shellow Bowells
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Shellow Bowells
    173 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shellow Bowells

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shellow Bowells. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    164 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

If you know how people move in Shellow Bowells – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Shellow Bowells

Shellow Bowells is 38 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.