Kelly Bray

Kelly Bray
Old mine buildings near Kelly Bray
Kelly Bray is located in Cornwall
Kelly Bray
Kelly Bray
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX359715
Civil parish
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCALLINGTON
Postcode districtPL17
Dialling code01579
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°31′12″N 4°18′58″W / 50.5201°N 4.3160°W / 50.5201; -4.3160
Kelly Bray post office

Kelly Bray (Cornish: Kellivre) is a village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated one mile (1.6 km) north of Callington, immediately west of Kit Hill[1] in a former mining area. Kelly Bray is in the parish of Callington and lies within the St Dominick, Harrowbarrow and Kelly Bray division on Cornwall Council. The population was 3,949 at the 2011 census.[2] Kelly Bray is first recorded ca. 1286 as Kellibregh (Cornish "Kellybregh", meaning "dappled grove").[3]

Kelly Bray was formerly the venue for the Royal Cornwall Show until it was moved to Wadebridge. The village was the location of Callington railway station - terminus of a branch line to Plymouth via Gunnislake. The line was closed beyond Gunnislake in 1966.

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  2. ^ "ward of Kelly Bray 2011 census". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  3. ^ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 42