29 Oct
Electric | Testing & Inspection
Dolgellau - LL40
Enquiry from: Ania W
Start Date: Immediate
PAT test Vet practice - will need to be done on a weekend
Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and neighborhood 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 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 really little, it is the second biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community includes Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unpredictable beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and also (y) gelli (soft mutation of celli) indicates "grove" or "spinney", and prevails locally in names for ranches in protected spaces. This would seem to be one of the most likely derivation, providing the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually also been recommended that the name could derive from words cell, suggesting "cell", converting for that reason as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this appears less most likely considering the background of the name. The earliest taped spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that until the 19th century, many punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant utilized the kind "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, as well as this was the type 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 adopted in 1836. While this type might stem from a false etymology, it ended up being standard in Welsh and is currently the basic type in both Welsh and also English. It was embraced as the main name by the regional country district council in 1958. Quickly before the closure of the community's train station it showed signs checking out variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
