Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, and the previous county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry to the Menai Strait, the tidal river dividing Anglesey from the coastline of North Wales. At the 2011 census, its population was 1,938. Beaumaris was the port of registration for all vessels in North West Wales, covering every harbour on Anglesey and all the ports from Conwy to Pwllheli. Shipbuilding was a significant market in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a close-by spit of land prolonging right into the Menai Strait concerning a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had actually originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" however was renamed when the town gallows was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the corpses of crooks dispatched in public executions. Later, danglings were accomplished at the community gaol and also the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse before he died-- decreeing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would certainly never reveal the exact same time.
