Dolgellau
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 traditionally the county town of the historical area of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its management condition when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the major base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely small, it is the second largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of uncertain origin, although dôl is Welsh for "meadow" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and is common locally in names for farms in protected nooks. This would appear to be one of the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually likewise been suggested that the name might stem from words cell, indicating "cell", translating as a result as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", however this seems less most likely considering the history of the name. The earliest taped spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From then till the 19th century, the majority of spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant used the form "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the type utilized 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 taken on in 1836. While this type may derive from an incorrect etymology, it became standard in Welsh and also is currently the conventional kind in both Welsh as well as English. It was embraced as the official name by the local country district council in 1958. Soon before the closure of the community's train station it showed signs reviewing variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
