Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market community as well as area in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, pushing the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is typically the county town of the historic county of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative status when Gwynedd was created in 1974. Dolgellau is the primary base for climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely small, it is the 2nd largest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The neighborhood includes Penmaenpool. The name of the town is of unsure origin, although dôl is Welsh for "meadow" or "dale", as well as (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) suggests "grove" or "spinney", and is common in your area in names for farms in protected spaces. This would seem to be the most likely derivation, providing the translation "Grove Meadow". It has also been recommended that the name might stem from words cell, implying "cell", equating consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", yet this seems less most likely considering the history of the name. The earliest videotaped punctuation (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a punctuation "Dolgethley" dates from 1285. From then up until the 19th century, the majority of punctuations 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, as well as this was the form utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never ever had much currency. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which develop Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt adopted in 1836. While this kind may originate from an incorrect etymology, it ended up being standard in Welsh and also is currently the basic kind in both Welsh as well as English. It was taken on as the main name by the local country district council in 1958. Shortly before the closure of the community's railway station it displayed indications reviewing otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and Dolgellau.
