Jon Sais

That is because the word shares the sme root origin as Cymru which is Welsh for Wales and whose original meaning is something like land of brothers or land of comrades. @tictax wrote:

cumbria sounds very welsh

Cumria was part of the Hen Ogledd (Old North) Welsh kingdoms existed in the Strathcylde area and from the area around Glasgow across to…[Read more]

To answer the original question, yes there is an area in England where Welsh is spoken by the local population, and that is the area around Oswestry, or Croesoswallt in the Welsh.
Also in the 19th century Welsh was spoken in many areas such as Herefordshire near the border.
Of corse in the early Dark ages Brythoneg and early Welsh was spoken…[Read more]