Richard Morgan is generously giving the Society access to his database of place-name evidence – mainly relating to south Wales and Montgomeryshire. It covers about 60,000 place-names, house-names, field-names, etc., and probably over 500,000 historical references, compiled over a long period. Much of the evidence is taken from sources which are not on line.

Initially the online version (https://www.cymdeithasenwaulleoedd.cymru/resources/richard-morgan-archive) contains an introduction, bibliography, and the data for the letters a-, b, and c-. It will be added to regularly.

Richard is a native of Wrexham, a former archivist in Shrewsbury, Llandrindod, and Cardiff, and an honorary lecturer at the School of Welsh at Bangor University. He has contributed to Welsh historical journals over a period of more than forty years on the themes of medieval history and place-names. He is author of Place-Names of Glamorgan, Place-Names of Carmarthenshire, Place-Names of Montgomeryshire, and several shorter publications on the place-names of five Welsh historic counties. He co-authored the Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales with Professor Hywel Wyn Owen, and is a founder member of the Society.