Standardised Welsh Place-names list

Cilmaen-gwyn

PronounceCilmaen-gwyn
Standard form
Cilmaen-gwyn
English form
Cilmaen-gwyn
Type
Settlement
Postcode
SA8
Grid reference
SN7406
Local authority
Neath Port Talbot

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.

The hyphen is used in Welsh place-names in order to aid pronunciation by showing that stress does not fall on the penultimate syllable. The stress falls on the final syllable of this name and therefore the final syllable is preceded by a hyphen.