Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and also area in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, resting on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is typically the county town of the historic area of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its management status when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely tiny, it is the second largest negotiation in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The area consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unpredictable beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "meadow" or "dale", as well as (y) gelli (soft mutation of celli) suggests "grove" or "spinney", and also prevails locally in names for ranches in protected nooks. This would certainly seem to be one of the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually additionally been suggested that the name can originate from the word cell, suggesting "cell", converting therefore as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", yet this seems much less most likely considering the history of the name. The earliest videotaped spelling (from 1253, in the Survey of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From then until the 19th century, a lot of spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant utilized the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the type made use of in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much money. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which create Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt taken on in 1836. While this type may stem from an incorrect etymology, it became conventional in Welsh as well as is currently the basic kind in both Welsh as well as English. It was embraced as the official name by the local rural area council in 1958. Quickly before the closure of the community's train station it showed indications reading otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.
