Creating a place-name database in Wales: computerization of the Melville Richards Place-name Archive

"Professor Melville Richards was Professor of Welsh at Bangor from 1967 to 1973. Throughout his outstanding academic life his major interest was the study of the place-names of Wales. He collected many thousands of names of rivers, hills, bays, fields, villages and towns. Much of his research was published but there is still invaluable material as yet unpublished. On his death in 1973, he deposited his entire collection of research slips (some 300,000 of them) on permanent loan at Bangor". (see project web site for more details).