Editing Llantwit Major (section)

==Etymology==
The [[St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major|parish church]] glosses the Welsh name of the town rather literally as "Illtud's Great Church".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?t=26076|title=Llantwit Major Parish Church|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> However, the name used in English means "Greater". The epithet ''fawr'' distinguishes this Llantwit from [[Llantwit Fardre]] (''{{lang|cy|Llanilltud Faerdref}}'') near [[Pontypridd]] and Llantwit Minor (''{{lang|cy|Llanilltud Fach}}''; also known as Llantwit-juxta-Neath and Lower Llantwit)<ref>Davies, Elwyn. ''A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names''. University of Wales Press (Cardiff), 1967. {{ISBN|0-7083-1038-9}}.</ref> near [[Neath]]. The [[Welsh toponymy|Welsh place-name]] element ''[[llan (placename)|llan]]''<ref>[[cognate]] with the English word ''lawn'' (meaning an open space, which was borrowed into Middle English from French, which borrowed it from Gaulish)</ref> referred to the sanctified community around an early Christian settlement in Wales and its [[parish]], rather than merely the church itself (''{{lang|cy|eglwys}}'').