Thorne, Ottery St Mary

The site is today occupied by Thorne Farm (much of the land of which has been built over by a modern housing estate known as Thorne Farm Way) situated to the immediate north of the town's school and hospital and to the immediate south of the surviving early 17th century grand mansion house of Cadhay.

of Cullompton,[11] Devon, a widespread and prominent Devonshire family the senior line of which was seated at Stafford, Dolton.

The arms of Kelloway (Argent, two grozing irons in saltire sable between four Kelway pears proper a bordure engrailed of the second) appear as the fourth of nine the quarters on an escutcheon on the mural monument to John Cooke (d. 1632) of Thorne in St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary.

He is said by Stabb[15] to have been murdered by a younger brother, and "the story goes that at midnight the statue steps down from its niche and walks about the church".

The case is recorded as follows:[16] Cooke stated that he was a captain of a trained band and that his family had been gentry for 300 years, whereas Bagg was merely a yeoman.