Standard Welsh Place-names

Gwesbyr

Standard form
Gwesbyr
English form
Gwesbyr
Type
Settlement
Postcode
CH8
Grid reference
SJ1183
Local authority
Flintshire

Notes

This is the form recommended in the national standard reference work, A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names (University of Wales Press, 1967). One should not deviate from its recommendations without good reason.

According to the rules of Welsh orthography s should be followed by the consonant b not by the consonant p. It is not easy, however, to hear the difference between the combination sp and the combination sb in speech (compare ysbyty/yspyty).

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