Gareth and Gerry Thanks for your comments. I am fairly well aware of the Landsker and it's history (I will spell it correctly this time!) and have some of Brian John's writings. Indeed I met his wife and possibly Brian years ago at his wife's candle workshop. I was really musing about the scattered Welsh names in the otherwise English speaking areas and whether there was' even before the railway' enough movement to suggest a possible explanation for some of these examples. There were, of course, a reasonable number of Welsh speakers who migrated to the industry of South Pembrokeshire particularly the Dockyard which being a government establishment would not have encouraged 'yr hen iaith' as the national anthem calls Welsh (the old language) Marcus