Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market community and also neighborhood in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, pushing the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historic region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its management status when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very small, it is the second largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The area includes Penmaenpool. The name of the town is of unclear origin, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", as well as (y) gelli (soft mutation of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for farms in sheltered spaces. This would appear to be the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has likewise been suggested that the name can derive from the word cell, suggesting "cell", equating therefore as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", yet this seems less likely thinking about the history of the name. The earliest videotaped spelling (from 1253, in the Survey of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, a lot of spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant made use of the form "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and also this was the form used 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 kind may stem from an incorrect etymology, it came to be standard in Welsh and is now the conventional kind in both Welsh and English. It was taken on as the main name by the neighborhood rural district council in 1958. Quickly before the closure of the community's train station it presented signs reviewing otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.
