Ysceifiog
village and community in Flintshire, Wales, UK
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.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ysceifiog” as village and community in Flintshire, Wales, UK. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village and community in Flintshire, Wales, UK. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8059699. The Library of Congress control number is no2002032208. Authority coordinates are 53.233, -3.273. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1585, 1657, 1627 and 1692.
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