Lelley is a small village in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England, in an area known as

Holderness Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common wit ...

. It is situated approximately north-east of

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city centre and north of

Hedon Hedon is a town and civil parish in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately east of Hull city centre. It lies to the north of the A1033 road at the crossroads of the B1240 and B1362 roads. It is pa ...

. The village forms part of the

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Elstronwick Elstronwick is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north-east of the town of Hedon and north-west of the village of Burton Pidsea. The civil parish ...

. Lelley comes from the word 'Lelle' which means 'clearing in the woods'. The village contains a

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, two benches (one a war memorial and the other a millennium bench) and a telephone box. Lelley Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in the village in 1859. In 1823 Lelly was in the parish of

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and the

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and

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. Population was 119, which included a carrier who operated between the village and

once a week. Baines, Edward (1823): ''History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York'', p. 363 The Lelley Windmill, a six-storey corn mill completed in 1790, is a Grade II* Listed Building.

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* * Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Holderness {{EastRiding-geo-stub