Complex sentence: It has attracted worldwide attention for its name, which dates back at least a thousand years and means "farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer"; it is the only place in the UK to be named after excrement.
Split into simpler sentences: It has attracted worldwide attention for its name, which dates back at least a thousand years and means "farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer". It is the only place in the UK to be named after excrement.