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 Pg Tips Tea
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (''St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave''), a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales is the longest official placename in the United Kingdom and the third-longest in the world.
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 Llanfair PG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch, commonly known as Llanfair PG, is a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait next to Menai Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.
The long form of the name is the longest officially recognised place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world, being 58 letters in length.
The village was originally known as Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll and was given its long name in the 19th century in an attempt to develop the village as a commercial and tourist centre (see Significance of the name below).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Llanfair_PG   (1066 words)

  
 Gresford Athletic Football Club
Llanfair then attacked down the right but a twenty yard shot was well wide.
Llanfair then created chances first from a free kick that Mike Price smothered and then Robbie Jones had to be alert to clear off the line with Price beaten.
Gresford were well on top at the stage and should have sealed a well earned victory before Llanfair drew level when a freekick was punched out by Mike Price and fell to the feet of Ian Burgess who fired a low shot into the corner.
www.gresfordathletic.co.uk /matchreports_llanfairPGH05.htm   (379 words)

  
 yllanfair
Llanfair PG is the village with the longest name in Wales, if not the World.
A Llanfair club was in existence probably in the late 1890s but was forced to stop playing in 1905.
Llanfair were Champions of the Anglesey League as far back as 1924 but the 1950s were, at the time, a more successful decade for the club.
www.citizens-choice.co.uk /yllanfair.htm   (1518 words)

  
 Plas Newydd, Llanfair PG
Plas Newydd, Llanfair PG Llanfair PG - Plas Newydd, Wales
Plas Newydd, a 15th C mansion standing in spacious parkland just 2mi/3km southwest of Llanfair PG, came into the possession of the Earls of Uxbridge and later the Marquises of Anglesey in 1784.
At the end of the 18th C the house was extensively rebuilt by James Wyatt, who also designed the very elaborate fan vaulting in the music room and the hall.
www.planetware.com /llanfair-pg/plas-newydd-gb-gwy-plasne.htm   (176 words)

  
 Caernarfon Boro 6 - 2 Llanfair PG Res
This was Boro's last pre season friendly and it all started with a last minute switch from playing at the Aber Forshore to settle for Cae Cerrig.
Llanfair PG were awarded a penalty less than 10 minutes later for a hand ball against left back Carwyn Roberts.
It was a good performance by the Boro and an encouraging one to take into the tough 1st league game against Trefor on Saturday.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesey, Wales
The name translates as 'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave'.
Originally called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, which means 'The Mary church by the pool near the white hazels' the village was renamed in the 19th Century.
It is believed that the name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was invented by a cobbler from Menai Bridge; little did he know that he had implemented one of the most successful tourist marketing plans of all time.
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 BBC NEWS | Wales | Back to Welsh roots for WI party
Hundreds of members are expected to travel to Llanfair PG on the island for the 90th anniversary.
"The Llanfair PG group doesn't meet in its original building, the Toll House, but there is an exhibition and we have been given a time slot to view the exhibits," she said.
After speaking at a conference in Bangor, she was invited to meet women from Llanfair PG.
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 BBC News | WALES | Longest place name joins internet superhighway
Until the 19th century the village on the island of Anglesey was known as Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (St Mary's church near the pool by the white hazels).
But with the advent of the railways and the development of a line between Chester and Holyhead, a local committee was formed to devise ways of attracting trains and tourists to the area.
Unfortunately, it is not clear who actually came up with the new name, but it is thought to be the invention of a cobbler from nearby Menai Bridge.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/602246.stm   (281 words)

  
 Llanfair PG Taxi: Taxis in Llanfair PG, Llandudno (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
May not be the cheapest Llanfair PG taxis but we are affordable and provide a quality service.
Taxis in Llanfair PG should all have insurance and when booking a Llanfair PG taxi cab ask about non smoking or smoker options if you have a preference.
Many Llanfair PG taxi companies will be able to pick you up at short notice or the last minute too so don't worry if you are running a little late and haven't booked your taxi ride yet!
www.taxi-web.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /uk/taxis_in_llanfair_pg.asp   (584 words)

  
 A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
However, what Llanfair PG does have over other long place-names is that there is a town, in which several shops and the railway station proudly display the complete long version of the name.
This would be 'ogof goch', but F seems a weak sound in Welsh and it is swallowed by the following G. The preceding 'Church of St Tysilio' is 'llan tysilio', and because the following phrase begins with the O of 'ogo(f)', a G is inserted to aid pronunciation.
Any cyclists out there may be interested to know that Llanfair PG is on the Welsh National Cycle Route, Sustrans's long-distance cycle route from Cardiff in the south to Holyhead in the north.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
- better (and easier) known as Llanfair PG - not only has a record breaking name but was the first Holyhead line station to be built on Anglesey during the great Victorian railway building era and dates back to 1848.
The major project was the massive £3 million refurbishment of the Grade 2 listed Holyhead Station, which serves the ferries to Ireland, and included a complete overhaul of its enormous 230 metre long roof as well as improvements to platform lighting, the train shed and the PA system.
Anthony Brooks (UK) Litchard Ltd of Bolton carried out the extensive repainting programme at the busy Holyhead terminal and the Northern Scaffolding Group (NSG) refurbished a number of stations along the picturesque coastal line including Deganwy, Penmaenmawr, Llanfairfechan and Llanfair PG to restore them to their former glory.
www.wjleigh.co.uk /news/LlanfairStation.asp   (353 words)

  
 The Old Rectory holiday cottage Llanfair PG, Anglesey. Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Situated within 30-minutes' drive of scenic Snowdonia National Park, The Old Rectory is only 7miles from the sandy beach at Red Wharf Bay and excellent forest and headland walking at Newburgh.
Just a mile away, the fascinatingly named, 19th-century Llanfair PG has shops and inns.
The property is well placed for enjoying a diversity of attractions, including Anglesey Sea Zoo and the National Trust-owned Plas Newydd, an 18th-century mansion set in 169 acres of parkland.
www.cottagedirect.co.uk /self-catering-holiday-property/Wales/OLB.html   (408 words)

  
 The Royal Family > The Queen's Golden Jubilee > Jubilee Journal > North Wales
A thousand-strong crowd gathered to welcome The Queen as she walked past the station sign on which the full name of the village is spelt out.
The 58-letter name means 'The Church of St Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio near a red cave', although it is usually shortened to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair P.G..
The extended name is almost certainly the work of a local tailor who wanted to put the village on the map in the mid 1800's.
www.royal.gov.uk /textonly/Page1400.asp   (866 words)

  
 Railways of North Wales 1975-1983: llanfairpg:general
Llanfairpwll, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Llanfair PG, or even the full monstrosity, no other place on the North Wales coast is known by so many names.
The small signal box at Llanfair is seen on 24th December 1976.
Actually, by this time it was officially only a gate box, as Bangor now controlled the area after the resignalling of a couple of years previously.
www.2d53.co.uk /llanfairpg/general.htm   (555 words)

  
 Day 13: Snowdownia National Park, Llanfair PG, and Conwy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We spent this day hiking in a national park (named for mount Snowdownia) and then visited the town of Llanfair PG.
Llanfair PG is an abbreviation for its full name which is visible in some of the pictures below; it apparently has the longest place name in the world!
The "trail" at this point led us through a sheep pasture; national parks in Britain are still private land, unlike in the U.S. It is not uncommon for trails like the one we took to cross farms, pastures, etc.
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 GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Sacred Places - The Island of Anglesey
About one and a half miles from the village of Llanfair PG (Thlan vire PG) stands the stately mansion known as Plas Newydd (Plars Neweethe), former seat of the Marquesses of Anglesey, but now in the care of the National Trust.
Two miles north from Llanfair PG, at the hamlet of Cefn Bach (Kev'n Bach) and unique in all of Britain, is the well-preserved passage grave of Bryn Cell Ddu (Brinne Kethley Thee: the hill of the fl cells).
Modern restoration only partially protects the area of the prehistoric mound 160-ft in diameter, which probably covered a henge type monument.
www.britannia.com /celtic/wales/sacred/anglesey.html   (910 words)

  
 Keith Morgan News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pringles, Llanfair PG, Anglesey on Wednesday, September 13th.
Pringles, Llanfair PG, Anglesey on Tuesday, September 19th.
Pringles, Llanfair PG, Anglesey on Friday, December 15th.
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 "Llanfair PG holiday cottages" holiday cottages in Llanfair PG, North Wales
"Llanfair PG holiday cottages" holiday cottages in Llanfair PG, North Wales
Llanfair PG holiday cottages, holiday cottages in Llanfair PG, North Wales, UK.
in Llanfair PG, North Wales, UK Brynsiencyn, Isle Of Angelsey, Anglesey.
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 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The link I originally put on my page for Llanfair P.G. disappeared, so in the interim I have written a short description of Llanfair P.G. I have twice been to Llanfair P.G. (as it has been humanely shortened) and it is definitely a town worth visiting.
It is a nice town and considering you're on an island and basically there's nothing else around except some ancient standing stones and even smaller towns, it's probably worth your while to visit Llanfair P.G. as long as you're visiting the isle of Anglesey.
You see, these are the great experiences one can have by being in such places, acting not at all cocky but being obviously foreign to the 'locals'.
web.ics.purdue.edu /~cirillo/llanfair.htm   (232 words)

  
 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com the longest single word .com domain name
This Welsh town actually exists and its name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".
For brevity, it is understandable that many of the locals simply refer to their village as "Llanfair" www.llanfair.com or "Llanfair PG" or "Llanfairpwll" which, of course, makes for easier typing and is faster to pronounce.
Prior to October 1999 it was not possible to register.com domain names longer than 26 characters (including 4 for the.com suffix).
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com   (282 words)

  
 destination guide - Llanfair Pg - Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the 1880s a local tailor invented the longest place name in Britain in a successful attempt to draw tourists.
The marquises of Anglesey still live at Plas Newydd (April-Oct Mon-Wed, Sat and Sun: house noon-5pm, garden 11am-5.30pm; house and garden £4.50, garden only £2.50; NT), a mile and a half south of Llanfair PG, a modest three-storey mansion with incongruous Tudor caps on slender octagonal turrets.
Inside, architect James Wyatt was given free stylistic rein, producing a Gothic music room followed by a Neoclassical staircase hall with a cantilevered staircase and deceptively solid-looking Doric columns - actually just painted wood.
www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Wales/40662.htm   (251 words)

  
 Llanfair on 43 Places
great britain llanfair long name long word longest name the name uk united kingdom wales welch
There isn’t much else there but a tweed mill and of course the poor locals who have to put up with all the English speakers trying to pronounce it.
My mother, who was born in Wales, sometimes earned change in the summers by waiting on the train station platform and reciting the name of the town on those passing through for vacation….
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 Llainfair PG, Anglesey, North Wales, UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The name of this world-famous station and village was created in the early nineteenth century by a local humorist.
The station of Llanfair PG (the usual abbreviation) was the first on Anglesey, and opened in 1848.
After a twenty year closure in 1973 to 1993, it reopened in 1994 having been restored by James Pringle Weavers, a shop and visitor centre next to the station building well worth visiting.
www.walestouristsonline.co.uk /anglesey/tourist/llanfairpg.html   (130 words)

  
 Llanfair PG - Longest place name in UK
Llanfair PG - Longest place name in UK Welshpedia
In fact, the original name of the place was Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, which itself is respectably long (though only having 17 letters in the Welsh alphabet as opposed to 20 in English).
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www.welshpedia.co.uk /places/other/llanfair.shtml   (314 words)

  
 Self-catering accommodation in Llanfair Pg - North Wales
Self-catering accommodation in Llanfair Pg - North Wales
Self-catering accommodation close to attractions in Llanfair Pg:
Sorry, there is currently no self-catering entries available in Llanfair Pg UK Attraction -> North Wales -> Llanfair Pg -> Nearby Self-catering
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 Guest House Llanfair PG Anglesey B&Bs North Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Guest House Llanfair PG Anglesey B&Bs North Wales
In the heart of Llanfair PG, the longest place name in the world, lies Trefair Guest House, where a warm welcome awaits all guests.
Visit the famous railway station, climb the Marquis of Anglesey Column, from where you will see beautiful views of Snowdonia and the Menai Straits.
www.walestouristsonline.co.uk /anglesey/guesthouse/trefair.html   (120 words)

  
 Llanfair PG Vacation Rentals | Hotels
HotStays.com has a comprehensive list of Vacation Rentals, Cabin Rentals and Bed and Breakfast Inns, and Hotels near Llanfair PG Wales.
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Our Vacation Rental Homes, Cabins for Rent and Cottage Rentals near Llanfair PG Wales are perfect for quick weekend getaways or weeklong stays.
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 Dave Fox
In English it translates to "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave."
There's not much to do in "Llanfair PG," as it is listed on most maps, other than buy the T-shirt (£10 at the TI), take pictures of the sign on the train station platform, and pester the TI lady to say it again.
But it's a scenic 15 minute drive from Caernarfon, home of one of the largest castles in Wales.
www.davethefox.com /words/llanfair.htm   (391 words)

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