Longest Place Name-showing approx pronunciation -Stevie Adler

Longest Place Name in the UK

TOURIST VISIT: Longest place name in the UK

This town’s claim to fame is to have the longest place name in the UK, weighing in at a massive mouth filling 58 characters!

Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

It’s also the longest official place name in Europe and can be found on the island of Anglesey in North Wales.

Longest Place Name -showing the translation-Stevie Adler

Gift shop selling gifts and jams and such which also has a restaurant serving cream teas. Yum. See the translation underneath the name?

Can you imagine asking for a railway ticket to Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch? You might have missed your train by the time you got it out. So there are various “official” shortened versions. Llanfairpwllgwyngyll seems to be the one appearing on maps. It can be shortened to Llanfairpwll or shorter still to Llanfair for manageable everyday conversation.

An interesting aside is that the Medium spellchecker flags all three shortened versions as miss-spelt, but accepts the full 58 character name as correct! Wow.

Longest Place Name-with a missing first ‘L’ -Stevie Adler