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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.
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Llanfair-is-gaer, a former parish in Arfon, Gwynedd; Llanfair, Vale of Glamorgan, a community near Cowbridge; Llanfair Caereinion, Powys; a small town in east central Wales; Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey; a village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales; Llanfair-Nant-Gwyn, hamlet in Pembrokeshire
Or, more accurately, the longest name: Welsh team Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club. The team, based in North Wales and more ...
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.