List of Historic Welsh Place Names talk

List of Historic Welsh Place Names talk

August 18, 2025

Dr James January-McCann, Place Names Officer for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, gave an amazing talk to Cilgerran Festival today.

Slowly, he is helping piece together the historical place names of the whole of Wales. This is incredibly valuable work for the process of connecting people with their landscape, recommoning and nature recovery (which is my day job).

historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk

Go here and have a look for yourself.

Old map with mountain and what looks like sperm but is probably tributaries to rivers, past settlements

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