Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
| Llanfairpwllgwyngyll | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 13 ′ N , 4 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3040 (2001) | ||
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| Post town | LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLL | ||
| ZIP code section | LL61 | ||
| prefix | 01248 | ||
| Part of the country | Wales | ||
| Preserved County | Gwynedd | ||
| Unitary authority | Anglesey | ||
| British Parliament | Ynys Môn | ||
| Welsh Parliament | Ynys Môn | ||
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll , in the short forms Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG and the long form Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch [ ˌɬan.vair.puɬ.ˌ
Place name
origin
The name means in Welsh :
"Marienkirche (Llanfair) in a hollow (pwll) of white hazelnuts (gwyn gyll) near (ger) the fast vortex (y chwyrn drobwll) and the Thysiliokirche (llantysilio) at the red cave (gogo goch) ."
Often the place name is abbreviated with Llanfair PG , Llanfair or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll . Welsh people usually only say Llanfairpwll or simply Llanfair ("St. Mary's") to the village . The English, however, simply call it Gogogoch .
A shoemaker invented the tongue twister in the 19th century to make the village of that time more attractive for trade and to encourage the railway company to set up a train station on the main London - Manchester - Holyhead line. The original name was just Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll .
With 58 letters, the village now has the longest official place name in Europe . With the name, the village became a tourist destination and the most famous village in Wales. There is a restored Victorian train station in town.
Guinness Book of Records
The place's domain was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records in 2002 with its 58 letters as the longest one-word domain name in the world. Since the components of domains can have a maximum of 63 letters, someone recognized that the five missing letters can be found in the naming of the upper (or old) district as pentre uchaf . Since then the domain llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.org.uk is registered with 63 (+5) letters. From there there is a redirect to the domain with the village name. On this page is also a link to www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.com , which in turn redirects.
Regarding the number of letters, it should be noted that in Welsh the letter sequences ff, dd, ll, ch, th, ph and rh each count as one letter; Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch therefore has only 51 letters. The letters w and y are vowels.
Further use
The place name also appears as a code word in Roger Vadim's comic adaptation Barbarella .
Parish partnership
The city has parish partnerships with Ee (Netherlands) and Y (France) .
Similar long place names
- Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion - a Welsh train station
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a mountain in New Zealand
- Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit - Bangkok's official place name
Web links
- Official website (English)
- bbc.co.uk - BBC lexicon article on Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stations & destinations - Llanfairpwll (LPG). National Rail Inquiries , accessed June 3, 2017 .
- ^ Office for National Statistics
- ↑ Lexicon of superlatives . Extraordinary and curious things from the world of records - 2000 edition. Bertelsmann, 2000, ISBN 3-577-10431-7 .
