[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Tenby
| County | Pembrokeshire |
|---|---|
| Transcript | tynbey |
| Icon description |
two castles, walls with one gate |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | W din, 'fort' + bych, 'small' |
| Translation | |
| Earlier editors | Tynbeyr (Gough) |
| Early Maps | ty(n)by (Angliae Figura); Tynbe (Totius Britanniae; castle, walls with one gate) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Tynebeh 1208-10, Tinbye 1245 Pat, Tynby 1369 Pat et passim with a variant spelling –bye; all earlier forms have initial D-; anglicised forms, with Welsh -bych replaced by Middle English/Old Norse -bigh and -by, are recorded from the 13th century; Welsh forms are Dinbych (attested from 1150) and Dinbych y Pysgod (attested from from c. 1566) |
