Wales
Flintshire
Ysceifiog

Ysceifiog

Ysceifiog, also spelled as Ysgeifiog, is a village and community in , . It lies on a back road just north of the A541 highway between and .
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  • Type: Village with 1,250 residents
  • Description: village and community in Flintshire, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Ysgeifiog”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ddol Uchaf and Caerwys railway station.

Nature reserve
is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located near Ysceifiog, , . It has been selected as an SSSI due to the unique wildlife and organisms around the area.

Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a station in , , Wales. The station was named for nearby , opened on 6 September 1869 and closed on 30 April 1962. is situated 1½ miles west of Ysceifiog.

Church
Photo: Dot Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lixwm and Babell.

Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in , Wales. It is part of the community of Ysceifiog. 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 : in their dialect "likesome", or "licksome", was an adjective meaning "pleasant".

Village
Photo: Dot Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , Wales. It is part of the community of Ysgeifiog. The hamlet takes its name from the Methodist chapel, built in 1836, but the surrounding area, a township of Ysgeifiog parish, was formerly known as Gelliloveday or Gellilyfdy.

Village
Photo: Dot Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Wales. It is situated about 6 kilometres from the A55 North Wales Expressway and on the A541 - road. At the 2001 Census, the population of was included into the civil parish of and was 1,319, with a total ward population of 2,496.

Ysceifiog

Latitude
53.2341° or 53° 14′ 3″ north
Longitude
-3.27116° or 3° 16′ 16″ west
Population
1,250
Elevation
607 feet (185 metres)
Open location code
9C5R6PMH+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 438490956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
12265294
Wiki­data ID
Q8059699
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Ysceifiog” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Ysceifiog”
  • Breton: “Ysceifiog”
  • Breton: “Ysgeifiog”
  • Catalan: “Ysceifiog”
  • Cebuano: “Ysceifiog”
  • Chinese: “Ysceifiog”
  • Cornish: “Ysceifiog”
  • Dutch: “Ysceifiog”
  • French: “Ysceifiog”
  • Galician: “Ysceifiog”
  • German: “Ysgeifiog”
  • Irish: “Ysceifiog”
  • Italian: “Ysceifiog”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ysceifiog”
  • Persian: “اسکیفوگ”
  • Scots: “Ysceifiog”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ysceifiog”
  • Swedish: “Ysceifiog”
  • Welsh: “Ysceifiog”
  • Welsh: “Ysgeifiog, Sir y Fflint”
  • Welsh: “Ysgeifiog”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Saint Marys Parish Church and Ysceifiog Village Hall.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ysceifiog”. Photo: Dot Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.