Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market community and community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, resting on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is generally the county town of the historic region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative condition when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very little, it is the 2nd biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unpredictable beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) implies "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for farms in sheltered nooks. This would appear to be the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has additionally been suggested that the name can stem from words cell, indicating "cell", equating consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", yet this seems less most likely thinking about the background of the name. The earliest videotaped spelling (from 1253, in the Survey of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, a lot of punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant used the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the form utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never ever had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which develop Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt embraced in 1836. While this kind might originate from a false etymology, it ended up being typical in Welsh and is now the common type in both Welsh and English. It was embraced as the official name by the neighborhood country district council in 1958. Soon before the closure of the community's railway station it showed indicators reading variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley and also Dolgellau.
