Dictionary of the Place‐Names of Wales

This handsome volume is the triumphant outcome of a significant research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the School of Welsh, Bangor University and located at the University's Place‐Name Research Centre. Dedicated to Professor G. Melville Richards (1910‐1973), a pioneer of scientific toponymy in Wales, this hugely important new standard work is authored by Professor Hywel Wyn Owen, Director of the Place‐Name Research Centre and Vice President of the Society of Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and by archivist Richard Morgan of the Glamorgan Record Office, also honorary lecturer in Welsh at the School of...