The National Gazetteer of Wales

If you have ancestors in Wales and are confused by all those strange Welsh place names, then The National Gazetteer of Wales will help you locate the particular place/places in Wales.

I say places beacause, as in all parts of the UK, there can be more than one town/village with the same name.

I am not an expert on Welsh place names, but I was browsing the gazatteer and saw that there are -

4 places called Newton
5 places called Newtown
1 place called Newton Cross
and
1 place called Newton Green

Given that not all of our ancestors were literate and, perhaps, liable to shorten the name of the place they came from, a lot of painstaking research can be required to find our ancestor's actual origins.

The site also has a useful map of Wales, details of the counties and administrative information.