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Kelly, Devon

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Coordinates:50°36′37″N4°16′10″W / 50.61028°N 4.26944°W /50.61028; -4.26944

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Village in Devon, England

Kelly is a small village in westDevon, England.

The village church is largelyPerpendicular of the 15th century but thechancel is earlier than the rest of the building, perhaps 14th century, and the south chancelaisle has windows of 1710 though in the Perpendicular style.

Kelly House is mid-18th century but its predecessor, theTudor house, was on a different site nearby and is still in existence.^[1]

Name

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Kelly the name derives from the Cornish for 'grove'. This village was named Chelli inOld English (1166 A.D.), and Chenleie in the Anglo-Norman of the 1086Domesday Book. 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.^{[citation needed]}