Beaumaris
Beaumaris is a neighborhood, and 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 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 expanding into the Menai Strait regarding a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had actually initially been called "Osmund's Eyre" yet was relabelled when the town hangings was erected there-- along with a "Dead House" for the remains of crooks dispatched in public executions. Later on, danglings were performed 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 provided a curse before he died-- deciding that if he was innocent the 4 faces of the church clock would certainly never ever show the exact same time.