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Pontarddulais
English name: Pontarddulais · Swansea
Place-name meaning, origin and pronunciation
Meaning
originally Pontardulais, “bridge at the mouth of the Dulais”, from pont “bridge”, aber “mouth” and the River Dulais
Broken down
Nearby & related:
Pont-lliw · PontlliwAbertawe · SwanseaAberafan · AberavonFforest-fach · FforestfachLlanelli · LlanelliRhydaman · Ammanford
Sources
- Wiktionary: Pontarddulais (Welsh) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Wiktionary: Pontarddulais (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Welsh Language Commissioner: Standard Welsh Place-names (record 3488) (OGL v3.0)
- Wikidata Q3397684 (CC0)
Meaning, etymology and pronunciation text is adapted from Wiktionary. The adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Standard Welsh forms from the Welsh Language Commissioner. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Coordinates and identifiers from Wikidata (CC0). Areas and map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
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