Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and also community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is traditionally the county town of the historical county of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative standing when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very little, it is the second largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the town is of uncertain beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and is common locally in names for ranches in protected spaces. This would seem to be one of the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually also been suggested that the name might derive from the word cell, meaning "cell", equating therefore as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", however this appears less likely taking into consideration the background of the name. The earliest tape-recorded spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, many spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe composed "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant used the form "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, as well as this was the type used in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never ever had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which create Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt embraced in 1836. While this kind may stem from a false etymology, it became common in Welsh as well as is currently the common kind in both Welsh and also English. It was embraced as the main name by the local rural district council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the community's train station it displayed indicators checking out variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.