ohmedusa:

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.”

ohmedusa:

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.”

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