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This is the first thorough, authoritative study of the place-names of the entire pre-1974 Flintshire, scholarly in substance, readable in presentation, with its selection of names based on the OS Landranger 1:50,000 map. The entry for each of the 800 names presents a grid reference, documentary and oral evidence with dates, derivation and meaning, and a discussion of the significance of the name in terms of history, language, landscape and industrial associations. Additionally, comparisons are drawn with similar names in other parts of Wales and the UK, and the later linguistic development of names is charted in light of the particular influences of a bilingual society.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Place-Names of Flintshire
Glossary of Elements
Index of related names
Sources and Abbreviations
Select Bibliography
Relevant on-line data-bases

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 juillet 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786831118
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Place-Names
of
Flintshire
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of
Flintshire
Hywel wyn Owen
Ken llOyd Gruffydd
University of Wales Press
2017
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acknowledgements ix
Prefacexi
introductionxv
Place-names of flintshire 1
Glossary of leme ents 205
index of related names 231
references, o surces and abbreviations 249
relevant online Databases and Place-ame nsocieties 263
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Hree sCH olars WHo Have provided me with advice and support
over very many years have been Professor Gwynedd Pierricceh, ard TMorgan and otmos roberts. others whose views and knowledge i have
sought have been Gareth Bevan, Professor Kenneth Cameron, Professeoa r Jl . Mcn
Dodgson, Dr a ngharad yfchan, Dr Margaret Gelling, Profes . Gso erar rint
Grufydd, Dr andrew Hawke, Mike Headon, Professor Bedweywr ils Jones, Profess or
Peredur lynch, Professor Prys Morgan, Dr livoer Padel, Dr hiran Parry, Dr David
Parsons and Professor David Torne.
flintshire is very fortunate in having a number of learned local historians
who, directly or indirectly, have added to our understanding of names, such as
Paul Davies, Bryn lelis, D. G. evans, David Jones, Kevin Matthias, J. e. Mesham,
W. Pritchard, Derrick Pratt, Maerey d, Dr avid rowe, Geof veasey, Chris
Williams and Dr Goronwy Wynne.
Gwynedd Pierce, richard Morgan and Kevin Matthias kindly read the fnal
draf. i am grateful to them for their suggestions.
i must acknowledge generous fnancial assistance for publishing costs from
the following: the Buckleoy ciets y, Cymdeithas Ddinesig r Wy yddgrug/Mold
Civic society, Cymdeithas enwau leloedd Cymru/Welsh Place- amne society,
Cymdeithas Hanes ir y s ffint/flintshire Historicoacietl s y, ir Ws illiam
Gladstone, eirlys Grufydd-vaens, Peter Meurig Jones, hi rain Wyn owen and the
society for an me studies in Britain anrd eiland.
Te staf of the University of Wales Press have been particularly helpful and
patient.

I’r Prifardd Ceri Wyn Jones y mae’r diolch am yr englyn, cofnod o gyfraniad enwau
lleoedd i’n hunaniaeth a’n trefadaeth.
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n 1994, i PUBlis HeD Te Place-Names of East Flintshire (University of Wales
Press), an exhaustive detailed survey incorporating the names of every town, Ivillage, hamlet, feld, hill, brook and hot lcolowm. pirised historical forms and
dates, an interpretation of each name together with a glossary of all the
toponymic elements in those names. Tis was the format that had been adopted by just
one previous place-name survey in Wales (Gwynedd Pierce’s Te Place-Names of
Dinas Powys Hundred, University of Wales Press, 1968). We were both following
the methodology of detailed scholarly county surveys established by the english
Place-name society many years ago. My original intention had been to follow
East Flintshire with two companion flintshire volumes, one on ‘West flintshire’,
the other on ‘Maelor’. However, professional and institutional priorities, as well
as the demands of research publication, frustrated such long-term plans for three
detailed flintshire volumes.
During the latter years, wiicth harrd Morgan as co-author, we published the
Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Gomer, 2007, 2008), the frst dictionary
of its kind in Wales. Te material was based on scholarly research, but in terms
of readability was accessible to the general r cehaderolar. s ws riting for scholars
is the backbone of research, but scholars writing for the general reader allows
a wider dissemination in interpreting the landscape, history and language of
a region. t wai s this conviction that led me in 2009 to decide that there was a
need for an inclusive volume for flintshire, incorporating material taken from
East Flintshire and the Dictionar, inny umerable articles and notes in county and
local history transactio lnlis, s De avies’s Flintshire Place-Nam, ses cholarly jo-ur
nals, and so on.
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Place-name studies necessitate two stages: the gathering of data and the
interpretation of data. Te frst stage is a laborious process, documenting the
historical forms for each nat rmee. qiuires a detailed knowledge of local (and
national) sources, a keen eye and disciplined recorn sdinogm. ie respects, a s
i know from East Flintshir, ie t can be the most time-consuming stage.
Tis is now the opportunity to pay tribute to my co-author in the present
volume, Ken l loyd Grufydd. o ver many years, i had been able to turn to Ken for
elucidation and interpretation of innumerable names. His unstinting a- nd gener
ous desire to further place-name study in flintshire prompted him to provide me
with data from his own research projects into various aspects of local and regional
history. Consequently, i persuaded Ken to be responsible for collecting as many
historical forms as possible for each name, particularly those names for which
my own material was sparse and where recent deposits (in Bangor, Ha warden,
aberystwyth and o lndon) provided new material. Tis he accomplished,
producing a database that is unparalle nledede. di, the database has material on far more
places than appear in this volume. sadly, K loen yd Gl rufydd died on 1 January
2015. i trust Place-Names of Flintshire will be a ftting tribute to a dedicated local
historian and generous scholar.

The Ken Lloyd Gruffydd database of Flintshire
place-names (KLGF)
an electronic copy of Ken’s digital place-name data will be deposiflintetd - in
shire record ofce, in the archives of Bangor University and in the Centre for
advanced Welsh and Celtic tudies as t baerystwyth. Ken has thus contributed
signifcantly to present and future place-name research in flintshire.
However, in the fnal stages of preparing the volume for the press, it became
apparent to me that it would be possible to utilise his database in an innovative
way. Te local historian flinin tshire would be eager to see (and possibly follow
up) references to original documentation relevant to the county, such as parish
registers, tithe maps and schedules, ordnaurnce vesy maps, evidence published
in easily accessible local history journals such as Clwyd H, Bistoruckleiayn, Ystrad
Alun, the Flintshire Historical Society Journal, edward l huyd’s Parochialia, Tomas
Pennant’s Tours of Wale, sellis Davies’s Flintshire Place-Nam, aes nd my
PlaceNames of East Flintshire. Tese sources are fully referentcehder s. o ources, more
obscure perhaps, are listed simply as K. Tis is a cryptic space-saving abbreviation
within the text directing the curious reader tloo K yd Gen lrufydd’s flintshire
database (KGlf) available online as a companion research tool (on the website of
Cymdeithas enwau lleoedd Cymru/Welsh Place- amne society). Te reader logs
on to the database to enter the place-name to see every single citation available to
me in writing the volume. one of the outcomes of this approach is to streamline
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the citations in the treatment of each name and reduce the ‘clutter -’ of cumber
some abbreviations. naother outcome is to draw attention to the whole range of
documentary forms provided by Ken for each name, since i selected (judiciously
i hope) those forms that best illustrate the narrative of the derivation, phonology
and orthographoy. ther forms thia did t not use may have signifcance at some
later date and for other purposes. a further potential is the additional names,
perhaps twice the number included in this volume (which is broadly those names
on the landranger ordnance ur svey maps). Tis supplementary material is more
patchy and less detailed for these additional names simply because Ken recorded
all that is currently available for those names, and if that proves to be slightly thin,
so be it. Te potential is self-evident for future researchers in place-names and
local history.
i have to absolve Ken of any conclusions based on his raw material. Te
linguistic analysis, the identifcation of elements and proposed etymology, the
phonological explication, the interpretation of the landscape, history and language,
the glossary of elements, are all my responsibility.
Hywel Wyn Owen
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