Talk:Llangammarch (parish)

Eccelesiastical parish
Aarticle was originally written about an alleged former eccelsiastical parish, so I've reverted the recent attempt to change the subject. The community is called Llangamarch, anyway. Sionk (talk) 18:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually the community council spells the name of the community Llangammarch in English (but Llangamarch in Welsh). This site also uses Llangammarch.  Vision of Britain uses Llangammarch for the place and cites both spellings for the ancient (ecclesiastical) parish (not sure why it is only "alleged").--Mhockey (talk) 21:31, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * 'Alleged' because the article remains unsourced. Ordnance Survey and Powys County Council call the community (and the council) Llangamarch, which is what I was basing my statement upon. Sionk (talk) 04:39, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * There's a pretty good source on the Vision of Britain site I referenced - the 19th century gazetteer. There are more sources here and here.  As for the spelling, the OS is bilingual in Wales, and I do not know what policy OS follows if the spelling of a community differs in the two languages.  I would go with local knowledge as evidenced in the community council's own spelling (and the other website), rather than what Powys says.  The difference is spelling between the two languages indicates that the local council's spelling is deliberate.


 * From the map on the GENUKI website, it seems that the ancient parish covered what are now the communities of Llangam(m)arch and Treflys. The Vision of Britain website shows that when civil parishes were created the ancient parish was split between the civil parishes of Treflys and Penbuallt.  It looks like that at some point the civil parish of Penbuallt became the community of Llangam(m)arch, but I cannot find an online source for when that happened (i.e. before or after CPs became communities).  Presumably the new name was chosen both because of the ancient parish and because of the name of the prinicipal settlement.--Mhockey (talk) 10:08, 10 August 2019 (UTC)