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