Talk:Welshpool

I don' think the intro needs such a large amount of information about the school. Not only is the information largely irrelevant to the article itself (i.e - whatever your opinion on the school it can't really be deemed important enough to be in the main intro), but it is obviously written by someone with links to the school and reads more like an advertisment. I suggest that someone creates a separate heading for the school lower down in the main body of the article. Kingbumpkin (talk) 09:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

OK, I have done this myself. The school now has it's own heading of "education". Kingbumpkin (talk) 09:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Does welshpool really have a bog snorkelling club or is this a joke? Kingbumpkin (talk) 19:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

The article states that Welshpool was Pool until 1835, when it was renamed to avoid confusion with Poole in Dorset. Presumably most of the people of the town would have continued to call it Pool: after all, why follow a bureaucratic imposition to disambiguate your town from somewhere two hundred miles away with which there is no danger of getting confused in local usage? My question then is how long this continued before most people adopted the bureaucratic imposition? There seems to be no particular reason for someone in a nearby village to begin talking about "going into Welshpool tomorrow", even up to the present day. I can well imagine that people who've moved to the area since would be more likely to call it Welshpool and pass that on to their children, but do historically local families continue to call it Pool? Do people use Pool as a kind of abbreviation, without necessarily being aware that it was the former name of the town? Old Man of Storr (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

I really don't understand the question. Welshpool is documented as switching its name to avoid confusion with Poole, but there can never be a definite date to when locals would switch using the term. But as the name shifted in 1835 then I'm sure everyone now uses it as a abbreviation of Welshpool, rather than its original name of Pool; two generations is enough to blow any naming out of the water. FruitMonkey (talk)

Well the question was whether anyone says "I'm going into Pool" or whatever, with Pool used as an abbreviation of Welshpool. You seem to be saying yes. This is interesting because it might just as well be abbreviated "Welsh", or not at all (AFAIK people in Sheffield don't call their city "Field"). Presumably then there have been people calling it Pool ever since the time when everyone called it Pool. It's not necessary for these people to be aware of the history of the name. Of course there can never be a clear date at which everyone changed over, but I wondered if there was anyone continuing to use "Pool" within living memory. There are countless places in the world where an official name has failed to completely displace a traditional name. I was asking if Welshpool was one of them. Old Man of Storr (talk) 23:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

I question the 1835 date altogether: I have a map of Shropshire showing the town (just over the border of course) as "Welsh Poole"... the map was made in 1695 (by Robert Morden). David (talk) 18:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I'd like to see the actual quote from the Encyclopaedia of Wales. Every pre-1835 map I've checked gives the name as Welshpool (or Welsh Pool or other variation) - I haven't found a map that gives the name as Pool. Dadge (talk) 00:48, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I am deleting this uncited and unarticled entry at the foot of that list, as it seems a joke addition:

• Rob Cookson , Excellent five a side footballer, and out like a shot at 5.58pm each Tuesday

Cloptonson (talk) 06:59, 29 June 2023 (UTC)Reply