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 traditionally the county town of the historical region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its administrative status when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although really small, it is the 2nd biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unclear origin, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) implies "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for ranches in protected nooks. This would certainly seem to be the most likely derivation, providing the translation "Grove Meadow". It has additionally been suggested that the name can originate from the word cell, implying "cell", converting consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this appears much less likely considering the background of the name. The earliest recorded spelling (from 1253, in the Survey of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From after that till the 19th century, a lot of spellings 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, and also this was the form used in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which develop Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt taken on in 1836. While this kind may derive from a false etymology, it ended up being typical in Welsh and also is now the conventional form in both Welsh and English. It was embraced as the main name by the neighborhood rural district council in 1958. Soon prior to the closure of the community's railway station it displayed indications checking out variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley and also Dolgellau.