Standardised Welsh Place-names list

Allt-wen

PronounceAllt-wen
Standard form
Allt-wen
English form
Allt-wen
Type
Settlement
Postcode
SA8
Grid reference
SN7203
Local authority
Neath Port Talbot

Notes

This is the form recommended in the national standard reference work, A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names (University of Wales Press, 1967). One should not deviate from its recommendations without good reason.

The Welsh definite article (y/yr) is not an integral part of this name.

The hyphen is used in Welsh place-names in order to aid pronunciation by showing that stress does not fall on the penultimate syllable. The stress falls on the final syllable of this name and therefore the final syllable is preceded by a hyphen.