Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a neighborhood, and also the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entrance 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 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 neighboring spit of land extending into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- in addition to a "Dead House" for the remains of criminals dispatched in public implementations. Later, hangings were executed at the community gaol as well as the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse before he passed away-- decreeing that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would certainly never ever show the very same time.
