welsh fact #3
Wales is home to the longest place name [and railway station name] in Europe.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which in English means ‘St Mary’s Church in a hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and St Tysil’s Church of the red cave’, is a village situated on theisland of Anglesey, and is known locally as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll. From what historians can make out, the extended name is almost certainly the work of a local tailor who wanted to put the village on the map in the mid 1800s.
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ is also the longest single word .com domain name in the world.
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January 3rd, 2006 at 10:08 am
[…] Had an email regarding an earlier post about the longest place name in the UK and what it means. If anyone’s interested, here’s the translation: The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio’s of the red cave. […]