Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town as well as neighborhood in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is generally the county town of the historic region of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which shed its administrative condition when Gwynedd was produced in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although really little, it is the 2nd biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of uncertain origin, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and also (y) gelli (soft mutation of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for farms in protected spaces. This would appear to be the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has also been suggested that the name could derive from words cell, meaning "cell", converting therefore as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", however this seems much less likely considering the history of the name. The earliest videotaped spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" days 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 used the kind "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the kind utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which create Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt adopted in 1836. While this type may derive from a false etymology, it became typical in Welsh as well as is currently the common form in both Welsh and English. It was embraced as the official name by the regional rural area council in 1958. Shortly prior to the closure of the town's railway station it displayed signs checking out variously Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
