| Country: | Wales |
| Static Image Name: | Cottages at Babell - geograph.org.uk - 72232.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Babell, Flintshire |
| Coordinates: | 53.24°N -3.27°W |
| Official Name: | Babell |
| Community Wales: | Ysceifiog |
| Unitary Wales: | Flintshire |
| Lieutenancy Wales: | Clwyd |
| Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Delyn |
| Constituency Westminster: | Clwyd East |
| Post Town: | HOLYWELL |
| Postcode District: | CH8 |
| Postcode Area: | CH |
| Dial Code: | 01352 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SJ1573 |
Babell is a hamlet in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the community of Ysgeifiog.
The hamlet takes its name from the Babell Methodist chapel, built in 1836, but the surrounding area, a township of Ysgeifiog parish, was formerly known as Gelliloveday or Gellilyfdy. The name was recorded in the Domesday Book in the form "Cheslilaved", and as "Kelliloveday" in 1602.[1] It has been suggested to mean "wych elm wood" (from Welsh gelli, "wood", and llwyv, llwyfanen, "wych elm"),[2] but the placename scholar Ellis Davies stated that it probably came from the personal name "Loveday", ("Lyfdy"): "Loveday's wood".[1]
There is a section of the ancient earthwork Offa's Dyke nearby Llyn-Ddu.[3] Although rural the area is dotted with old copper workings from the 19th century.
The notable 17th-century antiquary John Jones lived at the hall of Gellilyfdy, to the west of the present-day village.