
A road sign on the way to Borth Beach illustrates Wales’s seemingly unpronounceable place-names. Anglesey has the distinction of having the railway station with the longest name in Britain, possibly the whole world: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which 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.”