Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market community and also neighborhood in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, resting on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historic county of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its administrative status when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the major base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although really little, it is the 2nd biggest negotiation 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", as well as (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) indicates "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for farms in protected spaces. This would certainly seem to be one of the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually likewise been recommended that the name could stem from words cell, implying "cell", converting as a result as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", however this seems less likely thinking about the background of the name. The earliest taped punctuation (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 punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant made use of the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and also this was the form utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which form Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt embraced in 1836. While this form might stem from a false etymology, it became conventional in Welsh and also is now the common form in both Welsh as well as English. It was embraced as the main name by the local rural district council in 1958. Soon prior to the closure of the community's train station it presented indications checking out otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and also Dolgellau.
