Lixwm () is a small village in

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Ysceifiog 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".

. Lixwm 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

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: in their dialect "likesome", or "licksome", was an adjective meaning "pleasant".What's in a name – Licswm

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It may have been referred to as Lixwm Green, or Lixum Green, for a period in the 19th century.''The bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies'', University of Wales, v.9 (1939) 37–38 Samuel Lewis's 1843 ''Topographical Dictionary of Wales'' noted that at that time the majority of the population of Ysceifiog parish lived in Lixwm and were mainly employed in mines in the neighbouring parishes. Lewis, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Wales'', 1843, p.443 Even at that time, however, the population was declining due to the closure of some mines.

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