Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, as well as the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entryway to the Menai Strait, the tidal river dividing 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 major market in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a nearby spit of land prolonging into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had actually initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the corpses of offenders dispatched in public executions. Later, danglings were accomplished at the community gaol as well as the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse prior to he passed away-- announcing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would never show the exact same time.
