Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a community, and also the former county town, of Anglesey, Wales, at the eastern entryway to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the coastline 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 prolonging right into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the community. Gallows Point had initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" yet was renamed when the town gallows was erected there-- together with a "Dead House" for the corpses of lawbreakers dispatched in public implementations. Later on, danglings were accomplished at the town gaol and also the bodies hidden in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last detainees to hang at Beaumaris provided a curse before he died-- announcing that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would certainly never reveal the very same time.
