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K ... Keeping West along Devon's Way to Kelly

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Looking over Kelly, in west Devon Photo Julie Sampson Women Writing on the Devon Land A-Zof Devon Women Writers' Places   K for Kelly        Compared to my post for J and Jacobstowe , the K entry, in this A-Z of Devon Women Writers' Places, is going to be relatively easy. Admittedly, I was a bit split as to which Devon parish to choose for 'K.  Kentisbeare came close second because of E.M. Delafield, whose home was near the village, but the manuscript of Writing Women on the Devon Land  includes extensive commentary about that author and she appears in several blog-posts in my other blog, Scrapblog of the SouthWest . (See especially Delafield's Devon DoubleScapes  and Sad December at Kentisbeare; E. M. Delafield's Tragedies ).        So, here, I thought I'd travel westwards to Kelly , the small parish near Tavistock, which is straddling Devon's border with Cornwall. So you will find the village on Genuki fo...