St Davids

St Davids, Pembrokeshire

OS Grid Ref.: SM751254
Lat/Lng: 51.881684631416,-5.2691361316134

Name of the cathedral city in Pembrokeshire in the vicinity of St Davids Cathedral.

St Davids has been known by a number of names, including Mynyw or (Latin) Menevia, while evidence suggests that the English Dewstow was probably in use in the fourteenth century. The usual Welsh form, Tyddewi, comes into usage in the fifteenth century.

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More information

B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 283–6

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