An interesting website with a good list of Welsh placenames throughout England and a reliable historical bias to Britishness instead of Celticness is:
http://www.truebrits.org/aberigine2.php
The argument is fair and not anticeltic in its flavour.
'The Linguistic Celts If French is a Romance language, then Welsh is a Brittonic one.
The linguistic Celts, unlike the historical ones, are centred around the ancient languages of Britain and Ireland. Brittonic is the earliest known language from the island of Britain, and Gaelic (or Goidelic) is the earliest known language from the island of Ireland. Both of these have since split into modern languages, in much the same way that Latin split into the Romance languages of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and so on. Brittonic gave rise to Cymraeg (Welsh), Kernuak (Cornish) and Brezhoneg (Breton), while the original Gaelic language divided into Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. '
from http://www.truebrits.org/historicalcelts.php
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