Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town as well as area in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historical region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative standing when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely tiny, it is the second biggest negotiation in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unpredictable origin, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and also (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and prevails in your area in names for ranches in sheltered nooks. This would certainly appear to be the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually additionally been recommended that the name can stem from the word cell, indicating "cell", converting consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this appears much less likely considering the history of the name. The earliest taped punctuation (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, most spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant made use of the kind "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and also this was the type utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much money. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which form Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt taken on in 1836. While this type might originate from a false etymology, it came to be common in Welsh and is currently the conventional kind in both Welsh and English. It was adopted as the main name by the regional rural area council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the town's train station it displayed indications checking out variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.
