Beaumaris
Beaumaris is an area, as well as the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway dividing 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 significant sector in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a close-by spit of land expanding into the Menai Strait concerning a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the community hangings was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the corpses of crooks dispatched in public executions. Later, hangings were executed at the town gaol and also the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse before he passed away-- announcing that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would certainly never ever reveal the exact same time.
