( Has anyone got a (relatively comprehensive) list of Welsh names for (mainly ) British) places? Oh, come on now. There are rather a lot of British places, you know, and quite a lot of them have names. I tell you what, why don't you start by compiling a list of places, and we'll see which ones of them have names. No, seriously. It is a bit late in the day for this sort of thing. We used to stop at mid-day when I was a lad. ) Also, how do you translate the `-shire' at the end of county-names, eg. ( Lancashire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire? (Assuming the Welsh translate ) those, that is.) Usually X-shire is Sir X, at least where X is the nominal county town. In other parts of the country they would call siroedd swyddi, so Swydd X; I guess that's more standard these days. So Swydd Gaerhirfryn, Swydd Henffordd and Swydd Gaerly+r for yours. Yes, those usually are rendered in Welsh these days. Of course you don't /need/ the Sir or Swydd if there / isn't any chance of confusion with the town -- the name of the cricket / team would not need it, for example. / g