A Welsh language pressure group wants to extend a scheme that helps to protects land names in Wales. The Diogelwn (we will protect), a scheme launched by Cymdeithas yr Iaith, was launched in 2021 as a way for owners to protect their houses' Welsh names.
The project encourages people to ask their solicitor or conveyancer to include a particular clause when selling their house to prevent the buyers and their successors from changing the name. It also helps people to prevent buyers or beneficiaries under their will and their successors from changing the name of the house.
But it has now been extended to include names of land. According to the pressure group, it became obvious that there was a need to extend the scheme to include land names as well, after the name of a Carmarthenshire farm was lost from the Ordnance Survey map and replaced with another name.
