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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
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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 juillet 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786831125
Langue	English

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PLACE-NAMES OF FLINTSHIRE
PLACE-NAMES OF FLINTSHIRE

H YWEL W YN O WEN K EN L LOYD G RUFFYDD
© Hywel Wyn Owen and Ken Lloyd Gruffydd (1939–2015), 2017
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i Rhiain ac i Eirlys am eu cefnogaeth a’u hamynedd
Am fod treflan, llan a llain i ni’n fwy na rhyw fannau bychain, yr ym, wrth roi enw i’r rhain, yn ein henwi ni’n hunain.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Place-names of Flintshire
Glossary of Elements
Index of Related Names
References, Sources and Abbreviations
Relevant Online Databases and Place-Name Societies
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T HREE SCHOLARS WHO HAVE provided me with advice and support over very many years have been Professor Gwynedd Pierce, Richard Morgan and Tomos Roberts. Others whose views and knowledge I have sought have been Gareth Bevan, Professor Kenneth Cameron, Professor J. McNeal Dodgson, Dr Angharad Fychan, Dr Margaret Gelling, Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd, Dr Andrew Hawke, Mike Headon, Professor Bedwyr Lewis Jones, Professor Peredur Lynch, Professor Prys Morgan, Dr Oliver Padel, Dr Rhian Parry, Dr David Parsons and Professor David Thorne.
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 Ellis, D. G. Evans, David Jones, Kevin Matthias, J. E. Mesham, W. Pritchard, Derrick Pratt, Mary Reed, David Rowe, Geoff Veasey, Chris Williams and Dr Goronwy Wynne.
Gwynedd Pierce, Richard Morgan and Kevin Matthias kindly read the final draft. I am grateful to them for their suggestions.
I must acknowledge generous financial assistance for publishing costs from the following: the Buckley Society, Cymdeithas Ddinesig Yr Wyddgrug/Mold Civic Society, Cymdeithas Enwau Lleoedd Cymru/Welsh Place-Name Society, Cymdeithas Hanes Sir y Fflint/Flintshire Historical Society, Sir William Gladstone, Eirlys Gruffydd-Evans, Peter Meurig Jones, Rhiain Wyn Owen and the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland.
The staff 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 treftadaeth.
PREFACE
I N 1994, I PUBLISHED The Place-Names of East Flintshire (University of Wales Press), an exhaustive detailed survey incorporating the names of every town, village, hamlet, field, hill, brook and hollow. It comprised historical forms and dates, an interpretation of each name together with a glossary of all the toponymic elements in those names. This was the format that had been adopted by just one previous place-name survey in Wales (Gwynedd Pierce’s The 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, with Richard Morgan as co-author, we published the Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Gomer, 2007, 2008), the first dictionary of its kind in Wales. The material was based on scholarly research, but in terms of readability was accessible to the general reader. Scholars writing 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. It was 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 Dictionary , innumerable articles and notes in county and local history transactions, Ellis Davies’s Flintshire Place-Names , scholarly journals, and so on.
Place-name studies necessitate two stages: the gathering of data and the interpretation of data. The first stage is a laborious process, documenting the historical forms for each name. It requires a detailed knowledge of local (and national) sources, a keen eye and disciplined recording. In some respects, as I know from East Flintshire , it can be the most time-consuming stage.
This is now the opportunity to pay tribute to my co-author in the present volume, Ken Lloyd Gruffydd. Over many years, I had been able to turn to Ken for elucidation and interpretation of innumerable names. His unstinting and generous 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, Hawarden, Aberystwyth and London) provided new material. This he accomplished, producing a database that is unparalleled. Indeed, the database has material on far more places than appear in this volume. Sadly, Ken Lloyd Gruffydd died on 1 January 2015. I trust Place-Names of Flintshire will be a fitting 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 deposited in Flintshire Record Office, in the archives of Bangor University and in the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth. Ken has thus contributed significantly to present and future place-name research in Flintshire.
However, in the final 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. The local historian in Flintshire 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, Ordnance Survey maps, evidence published in easily accessible local history journals such as Clwyd Historian , Buckley , Ystrad Alun , the Flintshire Historical Society Journal , Edward Lhuyd’s Parochialia , Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales , Ellis Davies’s Flintshire Place-Names , and my Place-Names of East Flintshire . These sources are fully referenced. Other sources, more obscure perhaps, are listed simply as K. This is a cryptic space-saving abbreviation within the text directing the curious reader to Ken Lloyd Gruffydd’s Flintshire database (KLGF) available online as a companion research tool (on the website of Cymdeithas Enwau Lleoedd Cymru/Welsh Place-Name Society). The 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 the citations in the treatment of each name and reduce the ‘clutter’ of cumbersome abbreviations. Another 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 orthography. Other forms that I did not use may have significance 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 Survey maps). This 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. The 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. The linguistic analysis, the identification 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
INTRODUCTION
FLINTSHIRE
We decided to treat Flintshire as it was before local government reorganization transferred places like Prestatyn, Rhyl and Rhuddlan to Denbighshire. Record offices and cartographic gazetteers have had to grapple with this problem, and historians have tended to respect the integrity of the older counties. This volume deals with the names of Flintshire more or less when they were given and not its current administrative status.
When Flintshire was created in 1284 it comprised three separate entities, Tegeingl/Englefield, Hope and Maelor. The various 16th century Acts of Union added the Lordships of Mold and Hawarden as well as Marford and Hosely. In 1974 it be