Name
The name of the village (Ynys-y-bŵl in its Welsh-language spelling) is a compound of the words ynys, meaning "water-meadow", and bŵl, a loan-word from English meaning "bowl": a reference to the shape of the valley at this point. Locally, the village is often referred to as just "Bwl" or "The Bwl".
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