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Kelly is a small village in west
Kelly is a small village in west Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
, England.
The village church is largely Perpendicular
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of the 15th century but the chancel
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is earlier than the rest of the building, perhaps 14th century, and the south chancel aisle
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has windows of 1710 though in the Perpendicular style.
Kelly House is mid-18th century but its predecessor, the Tudor house, was on a different site nearby and is still in existence.Pevsner, N. (1952) ''South Devon''. Penguin Books; pp. 186-87
Name
Kelly the name derives from the Cornish for 'grove'. This village was named Chelli inOld English
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(1166 A.D.), and Chenleie in the Anglo-Norman of the 1086 ''Domesday Book
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''. Both these forms show mutation of the initial letter, again a feature of Celtic languages, where the initial letter 'mutates' when other words are place in front of it - in this case it would probably have originally been 'An Chelli' for 'the grove', where 'chelli' is the mutated form of 'Kelli', 'grove' in Old Cornish.
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* Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub