Ysceifiog
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Ysceifiog, also spelled as Ysgeifiog, is a village, community and parish 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".[3]
The parish 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.[4]
The Ysceifiog and Caerwys communities make up the Caerwys electoral ward on Flintshire County Council,[5] which elects one councillor.[6]
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
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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.[7]
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.
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) ISBN 0-86381-562-6
References
- ^ a b in the Ysceifiog Community
- ^ "Ysceifiog". UK Census Data 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Glossary of Welsh Placenames, Ordnance Survey
- ^ "Councillor Profiles". Ysceifiog Community Council. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "Caerwys". UK Census Data 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ "Electoral Arrangements for Flintshire". Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ Wales Pub Guide: The Fox Inn, Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Daily Telegraph
External links
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- Photos of Ysceifiog and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
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