Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market community as well as community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, resting on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is typically the county town of the historic area of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative condition when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very little, it is the 2nd largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The area consists of 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 certainly seem to be one of the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually additionally been suggested that the name can derive from words cell, meaning "cell", translating consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this appears much less most likely taking into consideration 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 then until the 19th century, many punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant utilized the type "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 adopted in 1836. While this type may originate from an incorrect etymology, it ended up being typical in Welsh as well as is currently the common kind in both Welsh as well as English. It was embraced as the main name by the neighborhood country area council in 1958. Quickly before the closure of the town's train station it displayed indicators reading otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.
