Editing Hay-on-Wye (section)

==Etymology==
The settlement's name is first referred to between 1135 and 1147 as {{lang|enm|Haya}}; in 1299 the name of {{lang|enm|La Haye}} is used. By the 16th century it was simply called ''Hay'', and the use of the river as a suffix is a later addition. In 1215, a Welsh name, {{lang|cy|Gelli}} was recorded, and {{lang|cy|Gelli gandrell}} in 1614; the two names may have been used concurrently in 1625. The English language name, ''Hay'', is derived from [[Old English]] {{lang|ang|hæg}}, possibly meaning a "fenced area" and a noun used in late Saxon and Norman times for an enclosure in a forest. The Welsh word {{lang|cy|celli}} ([[lenition|lenited]] to {{lang|cy|Gelli}}) has a range of meanings, including wooded areas of various extents.<ref name=cpat>{{cite web |title=Hay-on-Wye |publisher=Clwyd–Powys Archaeological Trust |work=Historic Settlement Survey – Brecon Beacons National Park |url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/ycom/bbnp/hayonwye.pdf|access-date=6 April 2014}}</ref>

The legal name of the [[Community (Wales)|community]] is Hay rather than Hay-on-Wye.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=17 November 2024}}</ref> In 1947 the [[General Post Office]] changed the name of the [[Post town#Locality|postal locality]] from Hay to Hay-on-Wye.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hay-on-Wye Conservation Area Appraisal |date=September 2016 |publisher=Breacon Beacons National Park Authority |location=Brecon |page=17 |url=https://bannau.wales/wp-content/uploads/English-version-Hay-on-Wye-Conservation-Area-Appraisal-Review-September-2016-1.pdf |access-date=17 November 2024}}</ref> The change of postal address did not change the name of the [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban district]] which then covered the town, which retained the name Hay and was subsequently converted into a community called Hay in 1974.<ref name=1971map>{{cite web |title=Brecknockshire: Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1971 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241241407 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=17 November 2024}}</ref>