Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, and also the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entry 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 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 market in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point-- a close-by spit of land prolonging into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" however was renamed when the town gallows was erected there-- in addition to a "Dead House" for the corpses of bad guys sent off in public executions. Later on, hangings were carried out at the community 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 prior to he died-- decreeing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would certainly never ever reveal the very same time.
