Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, and also the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the shore of North Wales. At the 2011 census, its population was 1,938. Beaumaris was the port of enrollment for all vessels in North West Wales, covering every harbour on Anglesey and all the ports from Conwy to Pwllheli. Shipbuilding was a significant industry in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a nearby spit of land expanding into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- in addition to a "Dead House" for the corpses of offenders dispatched in public executions. Later on, danglings were executed at the town gaol as well as the bodies hidden in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris released a curse before he died-- deciding that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would never ever reveal the same time.
