From BBC News of Aug. 1, 2005:
Welsh place names online databaseLearn about places like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll Llantysiliogogogoch at the Place-Name Research Centre: Archif Melville Richards.
A computer database of Welsh place names and their historical meanings will be launched at the National Eisteddfod in Bangor on Monday.
The late Professor Melville Richards, of the University of Wales, Bangor, painstakingly logged details on more than 330,000 slips of paper.
The massive paper archive has now been transcribed and made available online.
Prof Richards was professor of Welsh at the university between 1965 until his death in 1973.
His research papers were left to the university, along with a vast quantity of slips relating to place names.
These slips record documentary references to many thousands of farms, fields, hills, streams, islands, and bays in all parts of Wales.
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