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Llanfair PG

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, often called Llanfair PG, is the village with the world’s longest place name. The full, tongue-twisting name is: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogh and the translation is even longer – St Mary’s Church in a hollow of white hazel near to a rapid whirlpool and St Tysilio’s Church near the red cave. The name is said to have been invented, in humorous reference to the burgeoning tourit trade, by a local man. Whether this is true or not, it has certainly done the trick, as many visitors stop by initially outof curiosity at the name.

The village, overlooking the Menai Strait, is where the Britannia Bridge crosses to the mainland. The Marquess of Anglesey Column looks out from here over to Snowdonia, and the quite splendid views from the top of the column are available to anyone wishing to negotiate the spiral staircase of some 115 steps. The column was finished two years after the battle of Waterloo, and the statue on top of the column was added, in 1860, after the death of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge and 1st Marquess of Anglesey, whom it commemorates. Paget fought alongside the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, where he lost a leg to one of the last shots of the battle. He live to be 85, having twice been Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland after his military career ended (see also Plas Newydd).

The last public toll house, designed by Thomas Telford when he was working on the London-Holyhead road in the 1820s, stands in the village; it still displays the tolls charged in 1895, the year the toll house closed. Next door is the modest building where, in 1915, the first Women’s Institute in Britain was founded. The movement originated in Canada earlier in the same year.

However, the village’s most famous building is its Railway Station – the often filmed station whose platform has the longest station sign and where the longest platform ticket in Britain could be purchased. Today, visitors can see a replica of the Victorian ticket office, examine some rare miniature steam trains and wander around the numerous craft and souvenir shops that can now be found here.