“Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch”

is a village in North Wales. It is best known for having the longest officially recognised place name in the United Kingdom, and one of the longest in the world. It is signposted on surrounding roads as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

The English translation is as follows:

St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of saint tysilio of the red cave !!!

The village is a popular tourist destination. People stop at the railway station to be photographed next to the station sign, visit the nearby Visitors' Centre, or have 'passports' stamped at a local shop. Another tourist attraction is the nearby Marquess of Anglesey's Column, which at a height of 27 m offers views over the ‘Straits’.

Designed by Thomas Harrison, the monument celebrates the heroism of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey at the Battle of Waterloo.

The first ever meeting of the Women's Institute took place in Llanfairpwll in 1915 and the movement (which began in Canada) then spread through the rest of the British Isles.

A settlement has existed on the site of the village since the Neolithic era, with subsistance agriculture and fishing the most common occupations for much of the village's early history.

The area was briefly invaded and captured by the Romans under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, but quickly abandoned in order to consolidate forces against Boadicea. They did however, mange to kill ,all the local Druids, whose homeland this was.

However, with the introduction of estates in the 16th century, much of the land was absorbed into the Earldom of Uxbridge, currently under the Marquess of Anglesey, and the population forced to work as tenants on enclosures. However, the population of the town boomed, with a recorded population of 385 by the 1801 census.

The name was used in the movie ‘Barbarella’ as the password for the headquarters of Dildano, the comical revolutionary!!