Kidwelly

[jode]

Who can tell me something about the history of the name KIDWELLY. Small town in Wales, near Charmarthen.
Thank you very much.
jode

[ian.h]

hi jode
heres a good site with lots of info on kidwelly
http://www.kidwellyhistory.co.uk/
atb ian.h

[jode]

Thank you very much, ian.h. But I can’t find an information about the history of the name KIDWELLY, what it means an so... Perhaps you can further help me find it out .
jode

[Cell]

Hi,

I can't find the meaning of  Cydweli ( The welsh name for Kidwelly) in my book of Welsh Place-Names that I have , but I  did find this below with a quick search on the net:


"1) Dr. Paul Cavill (EPNS); Terry James (Carmarthenshire Place-name Survey); Richard Morgan (Glamorgan Record Office); Prof. Hywel Wyn Owen ( Place-name Research Centre, University of Wales, Bangor); Prof. Emeritus. G. O. Pierce and Dafydd Fon Williams, Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, Gwynedd.
(2) Cydweli ( or more correctly Cedweli, is the Welsh pers. name CADWAL + territorial suffix –I meaning CADWAL'S TERRITORY) [Ar Draws Gwlad 2, (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999) p.28] was primarily the name of a commote in the land of Ystad Tywi. It later became the name of a Norman lordship and remains today as a town name. Kidwelly is a poor anglicised spelling of Cydweli. "
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/someplacenames/page7.html

http://www.gwp.enta.net/walhist.html


Also this:
"Cydweli was probably so called from cyd, a junction, and wyl, a flow, or gushing out, being situated near the junction of the rivers Gwendraeth fawr and fychan....."
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CMN/Kidwelly/index.html
http://www.red4.co.uk/ebooks/itinerary/bk1ch9.htm


Is that the type of information you want, What the name means?
I don't think you're going to get a 100% definite translation/meaning of Cydweli
Hope that is of some help

[jode]

It’s fantastic. That is exactly the type of information I wanted. It’s a great help for me. Thanks.
Sorry for my unclear question. I’m not an English native speaker.

As much again: Thank you very much!
jode