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Extract from the Llanfair PG Travel Guides:
In the 1880s a local tailor invented the longest place name in Britain in a successful attempt to draw tourists. However, it is an utter disappointment to arrive at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch, which translates as "St Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio near the red cave" - commonly known as
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- to find only a railway station, a vast car park, a tacky wool shop and a
tourist office
(April-Oct Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-5pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Sun 10am-5pm; tel 01248/713177), the only one worth...
read the whole Llanfair PG Travel Guides...
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