Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, 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 registration for all vessels in North West Wales, covering every harbour on Anglesey and all the ports from Conwy to Pwllheli. Shipbuilding was a significant sector in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a close-by spit of land expanding right into the Menai Strait concerning a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had actually originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" however was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- in addition to a "Dead House" for the remains of lawbreakers dispatched in public implementations. Later on, hangings were carried out at the town gaol and also the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris issued a curse before he died-- announcing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would never reveal the exact same time.
