 The poet William Edwards (Wil Ysceifiog) also lived there in the first half of the 19th century, and John Owen (1733-1776), one of the pioneers of Methodism in Flintshire, was a native of Ysceifiog.The village pub, the "Fox Inn", is a substantially unaltered 18th century building, with a front room listed on CAMRA's register of nationally important pub interiors.The village committee maintains the local village hall which plays hosts to varying village events.