{"id":136,"date":"2007-08-19T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-08-19T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T09:47:58","slug":"llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch-wales","title":{"rendered":"Llanfairpwllgwyngyll&#8230;etc., etc. &#8211; Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 7 &#8211; Before crossing the Menai Straits\u00a0we passed through the world-famous village with the very Welsh name of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch &#8212; you&#8217;ve got to have Welsh blood to be able to work out the <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/8371-2\/GB_0470.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Llanfair\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Llanfair\" \/>pronounciation, but once you work out how the syllables come together, it&#8217;s helpful to break the word down to segments as follows: Llan &#8211; fair &#8211; pwll -gwyn &#8211; gyll &#8211; go &#8211; ger &#8211; ych &#8211; wyrn &#8211; drob &#8211; wll &#8211; llan &#8211; ty &#8211; silio &#8211; go &#8211; go &#8211; goch. And what this translates into is : Saint Mary&#8217;s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/8367-2\/GB_0468.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Llanfairpwll\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Llanfairpwll\" \/>For centuries, Llanfairpwll was a small rural settlement.\u00a0\u00a0However, as a result of road construction by Thomas Telford in the 1820s and the arrival of\u00a0<font color=\"#000066\">the railway crossing at Britannia Bridge at the beginning of the 1850s, led to the development of a new part of the village (<em>Pentre Isaf<\/em>, Lower Village) around the railway station.\u00a0With transport, came a\u00a0number of craftsmen, traders and shopkeepers who moved into the village, and Llanfairpwll became an important commercial centre.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000066\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/8369-2\/GB_0469.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Llanfairpwll station\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Llanfairpwll station\" \/>This exciting period saw the establishment of a Post Office, two schools, half a dozen pubs, a brewery, a hotel for visitors and\u00a012 grocers in the village. \u00a0By 1889, the\u00a0population\u00a0had reached 961.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000066\">Inside the James Pringle Visitors Centre next to the old station house, you&#8217;ll be able find Welsh crafts, gifts and souvenirs, including the station&#8217;s record-breaking size platform tickets.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t\u00a0forget to get your\u00a0passport stamped with\u00a0the\u00a0village&#8217;s name.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably not legal to do this, but how could you give up the opportunity.\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000066\">Helen<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAY 7 &#8211; Before crossing the Menai Straits\u00a0we passed through the world-famous village with the very Welsh name of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch &#8212; you&#8217;ve got to have Welsh blood to be able to work out the pronounciation, but once you work out how the syllables come together, it&#8217;s helpful to break the word down to segments as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain-ireland","category-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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