Protecting the Place Names of Wales

Yr Wyddfa ac Eryri / Snowdon and Snowdonia

Snowdonia National Park has announced that a place-names task and finish group will consider whether the Park should use only the Welsh names, consult, and report in a few months. Therefore there will be an opportunity to take part in further discussions in due course.

Here are some media comments, some of which are behind a paywall:

Golwg360:

(refering to this petition: https://www.change.org/p/parc-cenedlaethol-eryri-eryri-national-park-defnyddio-enw-r-wyddfa-ac-eryri-yn-unig-use-the-name-of-yr-wyddfa-and-eryri-only)

BBC Cymru:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/saf/56930913

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/56818363

Daily Post:

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/campaigner-changing-snowdon-yr-wyddfa-20482919

NationCymru:

https://nation.cymru/news/national-park-authority-rejects-motion-to-ditch-name-of-snowdon-for-welsh-one/

The National:

https://www.thenational.wales/news/19268023.call-ditch-snowdon-welsh-form-yr-wyddfa/

Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/29/yr-wyddfa-calls-snowdon-known-only-by-welsh-name

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/30/snowdon-yr-wyddfa-language-political-english-wales-ireland

Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/29/high-time-snowdon-reclaimed-english-referred-yr-wyddfa/

Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snowdon-may-be-ditched-for-welsh-name-yr-wyddfa-l7dpn6jwn

Evening Standard:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/snowdon-highest-mountain-known-wales-welsh-language-name-b932376.html

Independent:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wales-mount-snowdon-yr-wyddfa-b1839966.html