Just Chat | Jon Sais | Activity https://www.justchat.co.uk/members/jon-sais/activity/ Activity feed for Jon Sais. Tue, 05 May 2026 20:01:28 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.1.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 7d346b9d8e7495ac6af2ad6b291c2739 Jon Sais replied to the topic Are there any native Welsh-speaking areas in England? in the board Getting serious https://www.justchat.co.uk/boards/topic/are-there-any-native-welsh-speaking-areas-in-england/page/3/#post-396556 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:22:57 +0000 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]

]]> eff1e8fefb1c5d1b08f5812f1b9d22d2 Jon Sais replied to the topic Are there any native Welsh-speaking areas in England? in the board Getting serious https://www.justchat.co.uk/boards/topic/are-there-any-native-welsh-speaking-areas-in-england/page/3/#post-396553 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:42:42 +0000 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]

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