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Thousands back petition for Snowdonia and Snowdon to be known as Eryri and Yr Wyddfa
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5,000 signature petition calls on park authority to drop Snowdonia for Eryri
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5,000-signature petition calls on park authority to drop Snowdonia for Eryri
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The more recently popularised English forms of Snowdon and Snowdonia are thought to derive from the Saxon snow dune meaning snow hill. There is a precedent for the ditching of English place names for popular tourist attractions, however, with Ayres Rock in Australia now formally known by its Aboriginal name of Uluru. Previous efforts have been made to drop the English forms including one from language pressure group Cymuned in 2003, who claimed that the area only became known as Snowdonia due to Victorian day-trippers. Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service after the decision, Mr Roberts said: “I’m naturally disappointed as I felt this was a real chance to make a statement on the need to protect our indigenous Welsh place names.
Snowdon Mountain Railway A national park has delayed any decision on ditching the English name of “Snowdon” despite calls for Wales’ highest peak to only be referred to by its Welsh name of “Yr Wyddfa”. With the motion having also called for the park to use “Eryri” rather than “Snowdonia” in future, authority chiefs have instead set up a working group to consider its future policy on Welsh place names. The park was established in 1951, covering 827 square miles (2,140 km2) of mainly mountainous land in Gwynedd and Conwy counties. An earlier petition calling for the national park to drop “Snowdon” and “Snowdonia” was rejected by the Senedd last year after it was found to be the responsibility of the park itself rather than Cardiff Bay.