Editing Colwinston (section)

==Village on maps and its name==
A 16th-century map (probably of lands inherited by the Duchy of Lancaster) shows the village as Colwyns' Tone. The name was sometimes shortened to Coulston (e.g. Christopher Saxton's map of 1578). The village name was later usually spelled as one word, most commonly as Colwinstone or Colwinston. The Ordnance Survey has used ‘Colwinston’ since 1833 (reflecting the usual pronunciation) but some official sources (e.g. census records, official postal addresses) included an -e until the latter part of the 20th century.

The Welsh name of the village, Tregolwyn, first appears in writing c. 1566 as "tref golwyn"; it was not often recorded in official documents because of restrictions on the use of Welsh, but appears to be derived from ''tun'' as ''tref'' ("town"),<ref>{{cite book|author=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xopnAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=The Society|page=90}}</ref> and the Welsh name ''Colwyn'' or ''Collwyn'', which also has a literal meaning of "cub, whelp, puppy".