| County |
Carmarthenshire |
| Transcript |
plimile... |
| Icon description |
lake (a circle with wavy lines)
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| Icons |
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| Description |
red ink, within a cartouche on white background |
| Appearances |
- red ink
- written within a cartouche
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| Etymology |
pump/pum/pym, 'five' + llumon, 'stack, chimney, beacon' |
| Translation |
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| Earlier editors |
plumle.../plimilemon (OS 1935); Plimilemon, t. the south-east of Plynlimon is the drawing of a range of mountains, scarcely visible, omitted from the OS 1935 reproduction (Parsons) |
| Early Maps |
plu(n)loth (Totius Britanniae; circle with wavy lines on blue background) |
| Overwritten |
no |
| Attested spelling |
Plimlvmon 1476; earlier forms include the first element in the form Pum-/Pimp-/Pym-; the name of a group of peaks north of Eisteddfa Gurig |