Editing Snowdonia (section)

== Extent ==
Before the boundaries of the national park were designated, "Snowdonia" was generally used to refer to a smaller upland area of northern {{lang|cy|[[Gwynedd]]|italic=no}} centred on the Snowdon [[massif]]. The national park covers an area more than twice that size, extending south into the {{lang|cy|[[Meirionnydd]]|italic=no}} area.

This difference is apparent in books published before 1951. In [[George Borrow]]'s 1907 ''Wild Wales'' he states that "Snowdon or Eryri is no single hill, but a mountainous region, the loftiest part of which [is] called Y Wyddfa", making a distinction between the summit of the mountain and the surrounding massif.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Borrow |first=George |url=http://archive.org/details/wildwalesitspeo00borrgoog |title=Wild Wales: its People, Language and Scenery |publisher=John Murray |year=1907 |isbn=978-0-585-10189-7 |edition=5th |pages=199}}</ref> ''The Mountains of Snowdonia'' by H. Carr & G. Lister (1925) defines "Eryri" as "composed of the two [[cantref]]s of [[Cantref Arfon|Arfon]] and [[Arllechwedd]], and the two commotes of Nant Conwy and [[Eifionydd]]",<ref>'The Mountains of Snowdonia', pub. by Crosby, Lockwood & Son, London (1925) p. 5.</ref> which corresponds to [[Caernarfonshire]] with the exception of southwest [[Llŷn Peninsula|Llŷn]] and the [[Creuddyn Peninsula]]. 

In [[Geography (journal)|''Geography'']] ''Volume 26'', a journal of the [[Geographical Association]] published in 1941, Thomas Cotterill Warrington, writes a section titled "Nomenclature in the Mountains of Carnarvonshire" defining both "Snowdonia" and "Eryri".<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Warrington |first=Thomas Cotterill |date=September 1941 |title=Nomenclature in the Mountains of Carnarvonshire |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40562114 |journal=[[Geography (journal)|Geography]] |volume=26 |issue=3 |page=142 |jstor=49462114}}</ref> "Snowdonia" was described by Warrington as a "tourist's or mountaineer's term" which encompassed the district containing [[Pen-y-Gwryd]] at its centre. Its boundaries were described as stretching from the [[Conwy valley]] to Fairy Glen gorge (near [[Betws-y-Coed]]), then from the [[Lledr Valley]] towards [[Dolwyddelan]], and then across the hills to the valley of [[Ffestiniog]] and to [[Porthmadog]] (Portmadoc), before following the road to [[Caernarfon]] passing [[Dolbenmaen]] and [[Llanllyfni]].<ref name=":2" /> While "Eryri" was defined by Warrington to encompass all of what he described as "Snowdonia" but adding the highlands between [[Bwlch Mawr]] and [[Yr Eifl]].<ref name=":2" />

In ''Snowdonia: The National Park of North Wales'' (1949), F. J. North states that "When the Committee delineated provisional boundaries, they included areas some distance beyond Snowdonia proper".<ref>{{cite book |last1=North |first1=F J |title=Snowdonia |date=1949 |publisher=Collins |edition=xiii |location=London |language=en}} {{page?|date=May 2025}}</ref>