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Llanyblodwel is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England; the spelling "Llanyblodwell" was commonly used in the past, and the village was sometimes simply referred to as "Blodwell". The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 767.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil Parish population 2011 )〕 It lies 7 miles west of the nearest town, Oswestry, in the valley of the River Tanat.〔Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.114〕 The parish had a population of 817 at the time of the 2001 census.〔(Llanyblodwel CP ), Office for National Statistics〕 It was formerly in the Llanyblodwel and Pant ward of the borough of Oswestry. The village is located in a scenic rural area, with attractive views of the Welsh hills across the border. There were formerly several limestone quarries around Llanyblodwel, and limited quarrying still takes place. ==Etymology, history== The name is possibly a mixture of English and Welsh. ''Llan'' translates as "church" or "parish", so Llanyblodwel means "the church at Blodwel": a tributary of the Tanat was formerly known as the Blodwell, a name with a probable Old English root.〔Ekwall, E. ''English river-names'', Clarendon Press, 1928, p.39〕 The church itself may have Norman origins. The parish, on which the boundaries of the current civil parish were based, included the townships of Blodwell, Abertanat, Bryn, Moreton, and Llynclys.〔(Llanyblodwel ), GENUKI〕 There was historically a strong Welsh cultural and linguistic influence in the area. In a lecture given in 1878, the geographer E G Ravenstein noted that of 2,469 inhabitants of the parishes of Selattyn and Llanyblodwel, 900 spoke Welsh. It was, however, declining at this time: "in Llanyblodwell Welsh preponderates () the children of Welsh parents are often unable to speak Welsh. The Welsh service in the parish church has been discontinued since 1875, owing to a paucity of attendance".〔(The Welsh Language in 1878 ), from a lecture ''Celtic Languages of the British Isles'' given to the Royal Statistical Society by E. G. Ravenstein. Reported in ''Bye-Gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties'', May 1878.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Llanyblodwel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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