Ysceifiog Community Council

Ysceifiog is one of the ancient parishes of Flintshire which today includes the villages of Ysceifiog, Lixwm, and Babell.
With a rich history, Ysceifiog appears as both Schiviau and Schinan in Domesday Book in 1086, and it wasn’t until the Tudor era that the name began taking on its present form. Ysceifiog translates roughly as “a place where elder trees grow”.
A peaceful, rural community, the area is a patchwork of grazed fields, edged with thick hedgerows and pockets of woodland, against the backdrop of the Clwydian Range Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.