Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and also area in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, pushing the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historic county of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its administrative standing when Gwynedd was created in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although really little, it is the second largest negotiation in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the town is of unclear beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) suggests "grove" or "spinney", and also is common in your area in names for farms in protected nooks. This would appear to be one of the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually additionally been recommended that the name might stem from the word cell, suggesting "cell", translating for that reason as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this seems less most likely thinking about the background of the name. The earliest recorded spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From then up until the 19th century, most spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant utilized the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, as well as this was the form used in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much money. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which form Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt adopted in 1836. While this form may originate from a false etymology, it ended up being standard in Welsh and is now the basic form in both Welsh as well as English. It was taken on as the main name by the regional country area council in 1958. Quickly prior to the closure of the community's train station it presented signs reviewing otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley as well as Dolgellau.
