Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Epping Forest · Region: Eastern
Explore Shelley, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Shelley map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Shelley |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Epping Forest |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.714998 |
| Longitude | 0.245226 |
| Place Type | Village |
Shelley traces a quiet, unassuming line across the Essex landscape, defined by the slow transition of fields toward the Epping Forest district. It lies 0.8 miles north of Chipping Ongar (from Chipping Ongar: bearing 359°T, OS grid TL 552 041). The local horizon gathers around the elevation of Fishermans Hill, which rises with a subtle, persistent weight above the surrounding flatlands. Ancient earthworks remain as silent sentinels, specifically the trio of round barrows on Shelley Common that mark the passage of centuries beneath a perpetually changing sky. These burial mounds offer a stark, circular geometry against the open pasture, grounding the modern eye in a much older, more deliberate stillness. Great Stony Park provides a verdant buffer to the south, where the air often carries the damp, metallic scent of the nearby Waterend Ditch. Shelley retains a sparse, agricultural composure, rejecting the encroaching urban density in favour of wide, unadorned vistas. Time here does not rush; it merely settles into the heavy clay soil, leaving Shelley to exist as a brief, thoughtful pause between the busier reaches of the county.
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Explore Shelley, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.714998, 0.245226. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |