Editing Mumbles (section)

==Toponym== 
Mumbles has been noted for its [[place names considered unusual|unusual place name]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Symons|first=Mitchell|title=The Bumper Book For The Loo: Facts and figures, stats and stories – an unputdownable treat of trivia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vnxaoks-vtAC&pg=PA272|date=8 November 2012|publisher=Transworld|isbn=978-1-4481-5271-1|page=272}}</ref> The headland is thought by some to have been named by French sailors, after the shape of the two anthropomorphic islands which the headland comprises: the word "Mumbles" may be a corruption of the French ''les mamelles,'' meaning "the breasts". Another possible source of the name is the word [[Mamucium]], which is generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original [[Common Brittonic|Brythonic]] name, either from mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill") or from mamma ("mother", in reference to a local river goddess).{{cn|date=December 2023}}

[[Mumbles Lighthouse]] was built during the 1790s, and was converted to solar powered operation in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/lighthouse_list/mumbles.html|title=Mumbles|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203120031/http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/lighthouse_list/mumbles.html|archive-date=2013-12-03}}</ref>