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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch
(or Llanfairpwll, or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll,
or Llanfair PG, or just Llanfair as it is known by the locals) is on the
Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in Wales (Cymru).
This Welsh town has become famous because of its very long name.
It has the longest railway station name in the United Kingdom, and now the
longest single word domain name in the world. The name translates as
"St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a
rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave".
If you go to the tourist information office in
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch
and ask the staff nicely they will be only too happy to pronounce the
name of the town for you. They get asked to do this many times a day, every day,
so remember to be polite.
If you cant get to the town then what are you to do? Well,
are you wondering how to pronounce
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch?
Than just turn on your speakers and give
me
a click.
Originally, the town was called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll,
which means "The Mary church by the pool near the white hazels".
The village was renamed at the beginning of the 1850s when the railway was built
between Chester and Holyhead .
A local committee was formed to
try and encourage trains, travellers and 19th Century tourists to stop at the
village in order to help develop the village as a commercial and tourist centre.
It is believed the name was conceived by a cobbler, or a tailor, depending upon what story you
hear, from Menai Bridge.
Little did they know at the time that they had invented one of the most
successful tourist promotional plans of all time.
Today the village is signposted as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and is known by locals as
Llanfairpwll or Llanfair. It is also known as Llanfair PG to differentiate it from
other Welsh "Llanfair" villages. So many names for just the one place!
Such a large name for such a tiny place!
The Isle of Anglesey is situated off the
north-west coast of mainland Wales close to the beautiful Snowdonia area.
It is separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait, which is spanned by two
picturesque bridges, the Menai Bridge and the Britannia Bridge.
Anglesey was known as Mam Cymru ("Mother of Wales") during the middle ages
because its fertile fields formed the breadbasket for the north of Wales.
