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What’s in a name? For some places, plenty, it seems...

Llanfairpwll is a town in Wales or rather the shorter version of the name.

The town’s actual name is a 58-character word that roughly translates to “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”.

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