GWAENYSCOR, or GWANNYSGOR (GWAENESGAR), a parish, in the Media division of the hundred of PRESTATYN, county of FLINT,
NORTH WALES, 7 miles (N.w.) from Holywell, on the road to Holyhead, containing 247 inhabitants. This parish, which is
embosomed in hills, and surrounded by lofty mountains, abounds with lead-ore; and very extensive mines were for many
years worked with considerable advantage to the proprietors, but within the last few years have been discontinued. The
village is pleasantly situated at the base of a ridge of hills, on the summit of which are numerous verdant tumuli,
supposed to be the sepulchres of persons of distinction at some remote period. The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of St. Asaph, rated in the king's books at £9. 8. 14., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of St. Asaph. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small edifice of modern erection,
romantically situated amid lofty mountains, and is distinguished for possessing the oldest and most perfect register in
the principality, and perhaps even in the kingdom: it commences in the year 1538, at which time orders for keeping parish
registers were first issued: the entries are regular and entire, and the whole is in excellent preservation. In the
village there is a place of worship for Independents. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor is
£66. 16.