Bibliography

Hywel Wyn
Owen

5 publications between 1987 and 2017 indexed
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Owen, Hywel Wyn, and Ken Lloyd Gruffydd, Place-names of Flintshire, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017.  
abstract:
This volume presents the first thorough, authoritative study of the the place-names of Flintshire before 1974. Each of the eight hundred names considered is presented with a map grid reference; documentary and oral evidence of its origins, derivation, and meaning; and a discussion of the significance of the name in terms of history, language, landscape, and industrial associations. In addition, the authors draw comparisons with similar names in other parts of Wales and the UK, and trace the later linguistic development of names, with particular attention to the effects of a bilingual society.
abstract:
This volume presents the first thorough, authoritative study of the the place-names of Flintshire before 1974. Each of the eight hundred names considered is presented with a map grid reference; documentary and oral evidence of its origins, derivation, and meaning; and a discussion of the significance of the name in terms of history, language, landscape, and industrial associations. In addition, the authors draw comparisons with similar names in other parts of Wales and the UK, and trace the later linguistic development of names, with particular attention to the effects of a bilingual society.
Owen, Hywel Wyn, Dictionary of the place-names of Wales, Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2007.
Owen, Hywel Wyn, The place-names of east Flintshire, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994.  
abstract:
This book lists every single place-name and field-name in East Flintshire (recorded before 1900) – every river, bridge, hill, dale, wood, moor, town, village, hamlet, road, street, lane castle and field. Each name is followed by the earliest form, its date, subsequent references and the origin of the name. The glossary, which also acts as an index, lists all the different words found in the place-names. There is also a list of personal names. This text is the result of 25 years of research. It includes a complete and detailed Glossary of Elements.
abstract:
This book lists every single place-name and field-name in East Flintshire (recorded before 1900) – every river, bridge, hill, dale, wood, moor, town, village, hamlet, road, street, lane castle and field. Each name is followed by the earliest form, its date, subsequent references and the origin of the name. The glossary, which also acts as an index, lists all the different words found in the place-names. There is also a list of personal names. This text is the result of 25 years of research. It includes a complete and detailed Glossary of Elements.


Contributions to journals

Owen, Hywel Wyn, “English place-names and Welsh stress-patterns”, Nomina 11 (1987): 99–114.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Owen, Hywel Wyn, “English place-names in Wales”, in: Jayne Carroll, and David N. Parsons (eds), Perceptions of place: twenty-first-century interpretations of English place-name studies, Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2013. 321–354.