Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a neighborhood, and the previous county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entryway to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the coast 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 industry in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a nearby spit of land prolonging into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had actually originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the community gallows was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the remains of wrongdoers dispatched in public executions. Later on, hangings were executed at the town gaol and the bodies hidden in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris issued a curse before he died-- announcing that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would never reveal the same time.
