Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and neighborhood in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is commonly the county town of the historic area of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its management status when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the major base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although very little, it is the second biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unsure origin, although dôl is Welsh for "meadow" or "dale", as well as (y) gelli (soft mutation of celli) indicates "grove" or "spinney", and prevails locally in names for ranches in protected nooks. This would seem to be one of the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has actually likewise been recommended that the name might stem from the word cell, meaning "cell", equating as a result as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", but this seems much less likely thinking about the background of the name. The earliest taped spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From after that up until the 19th century, many spellings were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant made use of the type "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and 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 form Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt taken on in 1836. While this form might derive from an incorrect etymology, it came to be conventional in Welsh and also is currently the common type in both Welsh and English. It was adopted as the official name by the local rural district council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the community's train station it displayed indications checking out otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
