Ysceifiog
Encyclopedia
Ysceifiog, also written Ysgeifiog, is a small village, community
and parish in Flintshire
. It lies on a back road just north of the A541 highway between Nannerch
and Caerwys
. The name translates roughly as "a place where elder trees grow".
The parish includes the villages of Lixwm
, to the east of Ysceifiog village, and Babell
, to the north.
(c.1585-1657/8) was born and brought up in the small mansion of Gellilyfdy in Ysceifiog parish.
The poet William Edwards (Wil Ysceifiog) also lived there in the first half of the 19th century, and John Owen (1733-1776), one of the pioneers of Methodism in Flintshire, was a native of Ysceifiog.
The village committee maintains the local village hall which plays hosts to varying village events. The local football team, Ysceifiog F.C., joined the Llandyrnog and district village summer league in 1976. It took them 31 years to win a trophy. Junior Team Ysceifiog Wolves JFC have been a success in Junior football coming runners up in the Tesco UK Championships in 2011.
Community (Wales)
A community is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest-tier of local government in Wales. Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England....
and parish in Flintshire
Flintshire
Flintshire is a county in north-east Wales. It borders Denbighshire, Wrexham and the English county of Cheshire. It is named after the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders...
. It lies on a back road just north of the A541 highway between Nannerch
Nannerch
Nannerch is a village in Flintshire, north-east Wales. It is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At the 2001 Census the population of Nannerch was 531.-History:...
and Caerwys
Caerwys
Caerwys is a town in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated just under two miles from the A55 North Wales Expressway and one mile from the A541 Mold-Denbigh road. At the 2001 Census, the population of Caerwys civil parish was 1,315, with a total ward population of 2,496.Caerwys is mentioned in the...
. The name translates roughly as "a place where elder trees grow".
The parish includes the villages of Lixwm
Lixwm
Lixwm is a small village in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Ysceifiog.Lixwm was formerly a mining village, and one explanation of its unusual name was that it was given to it by miners who moved to the area from Derbyshire: in their dialect "likesome", or "licksome", was an...
, to the east of Ysceifiog village, and Babell
Babell
Babell is a hamlet in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Ysgeifiog.The hamlet takes its name from the Babell Methodist chapel, built in 1836, but the surrounding area was formerly known as Gelliloveday or Gellilyfdy...
, to the north.
Notable residents
The antiquarian and copyist of Welsh manuscripts John JonesJohn Jones of Gellilyfdy
John Jones of Gellilyfdy was a Welsh lawyer, antiquary, calligrapher, manuscript collector and scribe. He is particularly significant for his copying of many historic Welsh language manuscripts which would otherwise have been lost....
(c.1585-1657/8) was born and brought up in the small mansion of Gellilyfdy in Ysceifiog parish.
The poet William Edwards (Wil Ysceifiog) also lived there in the first half of the 19th century, and John Owen (1733-1776), one of the pioneers of Methodism in Flintshire, was a native of Ysceifiog.
Today
The village pub, the Fox Inn, is a substantially unaltered 18th century building, with a front room listed on CAMRA's register of nationally important pub interiors.The village committee maintains the local village hall which plays hosts to varying village events. The local football team, Ysceifiog F.C., joined the Llandyrnog and district village summer league in 1976. It took them 31 years to win a trophy. Junior Team Ysceifiog Wolves JFC have been a success in Junior football coming runners up in the Tesco UK Championships in 2011.
Sources
- Dewi Roberts The old villages of Denbighshire and Flintshire (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. 1999) ISBN 0-86381-562-6