Before a systematic street system and postal service, houses in Wales were named after local features of the landscape. This custom still continues and those who buy a modern house with only a number often devise a name for it. These names are generally topographical for example - Bryn Awel where bryn = hill and awel = light breeze. House names in this style are lyrical and satisfying rather than being banal, which is their fate in translation. The most grotesque example of this naming however occurs in Anglesey. This name which was devised for the tourist industry takes the Welsh ability to describe a dwelling into an absurd area of self-caricature. The name is Lianfairpwllgwyngychgogeryehchwyndrobwllllantisilioggogoch. 
This is however a fiction peddled on credulous visitors.

Welsh place naming in this lyrical style is at its most charming in the following example. In the 1960's a carpenter in Wales sent a note to his good friend using a short descriptive poem. That the letter arrived attests to the quality of the poem and the literacy of the local post-office. Here is a translation 

Two illustrations enclosed