Beaumaris is a neighborhood, and also the previous county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry to the Menai Strait, the tidal river 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 major market in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a nearby spit of land expanding right into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had actually initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" yet was renamed when the town gallows was erected there-- together with a "Dead House" for the corpses of offenders sent off in public executions. Later on, hangings were performed at the town gaol and the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris issued a curse before he passed away-- deciding that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would certainly never ever reveal the very same time.