Tywyn / Towyn - Talyllyn Lake, Gwynedd - Photochrom postcard c.1930s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Towyn (or Tywyn), Merionethshire (Gwynedd) - Talyllyn Lake
• Publisher:  Photochrom Ltd.
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Tywyn (formerly sometimes Towyn) is a town and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales. It previously was in the historic county of Merionethshire. It is famous as the location of the Cadfan Stone, a stone cross with the earliest known example of written Welsh.

The name derives from the Welsh tywyn ('beach, seashore, sand-dune'); extensive sand dunes are still to be found to the north and south of the town. The place-name element tywyn is found in many other parts of Wales, most notably Towyn near Abergele.^[1]

The town is sometimes referred to in Welsh as Tywyn Meirionnydd (with Meirionnydd here probably referring to the cantref of that name which lay between the River Mawddach and the River Dovey). In English, during the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth century, the town was sometimes called Towyn-on-Sea.

In Welsh the name is normally pronounced as ['t??.?n]. Historically, the name was normally spelled in Welsh either as Tywyn or Towyn. With the standardization of the orthography of the Welsh language in the first part of the twentieth century, the standard spelling Tywyn came to dominate, and was accepted as the official name of the town in both languages in the 1970s.

The current English pronunciation is normally /'ta?.?n/. This was historically spelled Towyn. Until the 1970s, therefore, the Towyn spelling was usual in English and sometimes used in Welsh, although the pronunciation was different in the two languages.

The spelling Towyn is now considered to be an Anglicization and is rarely used.^[2]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=merionethshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted