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Gwaenysgor is a small village in Flintshire, Wales. Located near Prestatyn in north Wales, it lies at an elevation of 600 feet, 183 metres. There is one pub, the Eagle and Child. The remnants of RAF Prestatyn lie on the hill nearby. (St. Elmo's Summerhouse). It is in the community of Trelawnyd and Gwaenysgor.
St Mary Magdalene's preserves Norman masonry in its south doorway and a thirteenth-century font; the single-cell building gained a Perpendicular east window and an arch-braced roof in the later Middle Ages and retains seventeenth-century fittings, including an oak altar table and a sundial pedestal dated 1663.
A kilometre north-west the summit known locally as Gwaenysgor Mountain holds RAF Prestatyn, an R11 ROTOR radar station completed in 1956 and abandoned in the late 1960s; its Type 14 plinth, operations block and perimeter fencing still dominate the skyline beside modern communication masts. The hilltop also covers the Bronze-Age barrow known as St Elmo's Summerhouse, while the 177-mile Offa's Dyke Path climbs past the site from Prestatyn before dropping east toward Trelawnyd, its way-markers inviting walkers into Betws Gwaenysgor for refreshment.
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