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The parish name was recorded as Llanfair y Pwllgwyngyll ('Llanfair' meaning "[St.] Mary's church"; y meaning "(of) the") as far back as the mid 16th century, in Leland's Itinerary. The suffixing of the township name to that of the church would have served to distinguish the parish from the many other sites dedicated to Mary in Wales.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a railway station on the island of Anglesey in Wales, is the longest place name in the Welsh language. At 51 letters in the Welsh alphabet (the digraphs ll and ch are each collated as single letters) the name can be translated as "St Mary's church in the hollow of the ...
Note: Listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest official place name in the world. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 characters); Short forms: Llanfair PG, Llanfairpwll, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll The 58 characters include 7 digraphs, so it consists of only 51 letters in the Welsh language.
Now, the Spanish soccer league has linked up with the biggest name in the sport. Or, more accurately, the longest name: Welsh team Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll ...
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Location of Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Anglesey, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf (Llanbedrgoch) [2] [75] 1794 Presbyterian: Rebuilt 1853, 1892 St Mary, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll: Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll: Mary [47] Medieval Church in Wales: Bro Dwynwen Rebuilt 1853 Rhos-y-Gad United Church Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll [2] [76] 1785 Presbyterian: Rebuilt 1836, 1873 Capel Ebeneser, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Llanfair ...
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