Dolgellau is a market town as well as community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, pushing the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is generally the county town of the historical region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its administrative condition when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the major base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very tiny, it is the second largest negotiation in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unclear beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) indicates "grove" or "spinney", as well as is common in your area in names for farms in sheltered nooks. This would certainly seem to be the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has likewise been recommended that the name might stem from words cell, meaning "cell", translating consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this appears much less likely considering the background of the name. The earliest videotaped punctuation (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, the majority of spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe composed "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant utilized the form "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the form utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never ever had much money. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which form Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt embraced in 1836. While this type may derive from a false etymology, it came to be conventional in Welsh as well as is now the basic type in both Welsh and also English. It was embraced as the main name by the regional rural district council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the town's train station it displayed indicators checking out otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and also Dolgellau.
