Lixwm
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lixwm-293-16193638
title:
Lixwm
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Lixwm is a small village in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Ysceifiog. 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 Derbyshire: in their dialect "likesome", or "licksome", was an adjective meaning "pleasant". It may have been referred to as Lixwm Green, or Lixum Green, for a period in the 19th century. Samuel Lewis's 1843 Topographical Dictionary of Wales noted that at that time the
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Village in Flintshire, Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixwm
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date modified:
2023-12-13T19:18:06Z
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