Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a neighborhood, and also the previous county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry to the Menai Strait, the tidal river dividing 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 significant industry in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a nearby spit of land prolonging into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" however was relabelled when the community hangings was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the remains of bad guys dispatched in public executions. Later on, danglings were carried out at the community gaol as well as the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. Among the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse prior to he died-- announcing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would certainly never reveal the same time.
