Dolgellau is a market community and also community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, resting on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historical region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its management condition when Gwynedd was developed in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely tiny, it is the 2nd largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The area consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unsure beginning, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and also (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) indicates "grove" or "spinney", as well as prevails in your area in names for ranches in protected spaces. This would certainly seem to be the most likely derivation, offering the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually additionally been suggested that the name might stem from the word cell, suggesting "cell", converting consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", yet this seems less most likely thinking about the history of the name. The earliest tape-recorded punctuation (from 1253, in the Survey of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, most punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe created "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant used the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and also this was the type made use of 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 adopted in 1836. While this kind might stem from a false etymology, it came to be standard in Welsh as well as is now the conventional type in both Welsh and English. It was taken on as the official name by the neighborhood rural district council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the community's railway station it showed indicators checking out otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
