(Daventry National Programme)
Yr Athro Ifor Williams

(Welsh Place-Names)
Welsh place-names can throw a good deal of light on the history of the country. Some of them are really the names of Celtic or pre-Celtic tribes who once lived in the regions now called after them. Occasionally, a place-name is the only available testimony to the presence of a certain tribe in a particular district. Professor Williams will give some examples of such place-names and show their connection with the past. He will also discuss old Welsh words which have disappeared from modern literature, but which survive here and there as place-names.