S01: Introduction
 
 

12. Place names are tools and have to be handy!

 


Church of St Mary in the hollow of the white hazel trees, near the fierce whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio, by a red cave.

This name was a tongue-in-cheek invention of the mid 19th century designed to attract much-needed traffic to a declining railway station and freight-yard on the island of Anglesey in North Wales. A tailor from Menai Bridge is credited with the invention (Source: Sounds of Wales).

Of course a name that long can not be put on a normal name shield, nor incorporated on a map.

 

 
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