Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/villages-in-flintshire

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Ysceifiog

Village and community in Flintshire, Wales

Ysceifiog

Village and community in Flintshire, Wales

FieldValue
countryWales
typeVillage and community
coordinates
population1247
population_ref(2021)
community_walesYsceifiog
unitary_walesFlintshire
lieutenancy_walesClwyd
constituency_welsh_assemblyDelyn
constituency_westminsterClwyd East
post_townMOLD
postcode_districtCH7
postcode_areaCH
post_town1HOLYWELL
postcode_district1CH8
postcode_area1CH
dial_code01352
os_grid_referenceSJ151714
static_imageYsceifiog - geograph.org.uk - 132312.jpg
static_image_captionThe village
parts_stylepara
parts_typeSettlements
p1Babell
p2Lixwm
p3Ysceifiog
website
module[[File:2024 Wales Flintshire Community Ysceifiog map.svg240px]]
Map of the community

Map of the community

Ysceifiog, also spelled as Ysgeifiog, is a village and community in Flintshire, Wales. 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 community includes the villages of Lixwm, to the east of Ysceifiog village, and Babell, to the north.

Governance

Ysceifiog Community Council consists of nine councillors, and is not divided into wards.

The Ysceifiog and Caerwys communities make up the Caerwys electoral ward on Flintshire County Council, which elects one councillor.

Ysceifiog is part of the Delyn constituency and North Wales region for the Senedd, and of the Delyn constituency for parliament.

Notable residents

The antiquarian and copyist of Welsh manuscripts John Jones (c.1585-1657/8) was born and brought up in the small mansion of Gellilyfdy in Ysceifiog parish.

Thomas Wynne (1627–1692) was born in Ysceifiog, where his family dated back seventeen generations to Owain Gwynedd. Wynne became personal physician to William Penn and was one of the original settlers of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania. He also served as speaker for the first two Pennsylvania Assemblies of the Province in Philadelphia in 1687 and 1688.

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 church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building.

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 village events.

The local football team, Ysceifiog F.C., joined the Llandyrnog & District Summer League in 1976. They won the knockout shield in 2007 and 2008, and the league title in 2008. Their catchment area also includes the villages of Lixwm and Nannerch, and the Brynford area was added in 2024.

Although taking the name of the village Ysceifiog Wolves JFC, a successful junior league football team coming runners up in the Tesco UK Championships in 2011.

Sources

  • Dewi Roberts The old villages of Denbighshire and Flintshire (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. 1999)

References

References

  1. "Ysceifiog".
  2. (July 2024). "Location of Clwyd East".
  3. [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/welshglossary-t-y.html Glossary of Welsh Placenames], Ordnance Survey
  4. "Councillor Profiles".
  5. "Caerwys".
  6. "Electoral Arrangements for Flintshire".
  7. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/3341695/Wales-Pub-Guide-The-Fox-Inn-Ysceifiog-Flintshire.html Wales Pub Guide: The Fox Inn, Ysceifiog, Flintshire], ''Daily Telegraph''
  8. https://www.summerfootball.co.uk/ysceifiog/
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

villages-in-flintshire communities-in-flintshire
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Ysceifiog — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report