Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, and the previous county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entryway to the Menai Strait, the tidal river 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 sector 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 originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was relabelled when the community gallows was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the remains of wrongdoers sent off in public implementations. Later on, danglings were carried out at the town gaol and also the bodies hidden in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last detainees 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 never show the exact same time.
