Are there any native Welsh-speaking areas in England?

so are you English hmmmmm no maybe a mixture of French, Dutch with a bit of Scandanavian thrown in….but not English in the true sense of the word……

There has been hundreds of years of mixing between the English, Welsh and Scots.
Also recent genetic evidence suggests the Britonic Celts weren’t all driven out of England, a lot were thought to have stayed and been assimilated into Anglo-Saxon culture. Also, Wales might have avoided the Anglo-Saxons but it did have Norse, Viking and Norman settlements.

Most English people will have some Welsh ancestry and vice versa. I am half English, a quarter Welsh and a quarter Irish, for instance. I have never thought of myself a English, but always British.

By the way over the centuries when invaders from Europe came over spreading throughout the southeast, the Britons fled to the hills

The Britons were also invaders from Europe around 500 BC. They probably did the same to the previous inhabitants, the Beaker People, Gaels and Picts, as the Saxons did to them!!

There are obvioulsly quite a lot of Welsh people in England who are able to speak Welsh, one figure I read for this was over 100,000 but that’s not really what I’m on about in the original post. I mean small pockets on along the English side of the Welsh border where Welsh is spoken day-to-day by a proportion of the inhabitants.

The plain fact is that if you speak very loudly and slowly and wave your arms around a bit … “foreigners” invariably understand you.

The French use a variation of this method when communicating with foreigners, in which they speak French faster and quieter instead of slower and louder.