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>http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog...

Welsh place names can be brilliantly literal, Aberystwyth for example is "mouth of the river Ystwyth". Llanfairpwllgwyngyll... means "St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels over against the pool of St Tysilio Gogo" but the name was completely contrived in the Victorian era to promote tourism to Anglesey.

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