Beaumaris
Beaumaris is an area, and the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entryway 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 major industry in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a close-by spit of land extending right into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" however was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the remains of crooks sent off in public implementations. Later on, hangings were performed at the community gaol and the bodies hidden in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse prior to he died-- announcing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would never ever reveal the same time.