Kelly is a small village in west

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, England. The village church is largely

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of the 15th century but the

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is earlier than the rest of the building, perhaps 14th century, and the south chancel

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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 in

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(1166 A.D.), and Chenleie in the Anglo-Norman of the 1086 ''

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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