Beaumaris lies at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the coast of North Wales and it was originally a Viking settlement, until 1295 when Edward I of England, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast
In medieval times Beaumaris was the port of registration for all vessels in North West Wales, and this was centred on Gallows Point – a portion of land extending into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the town.
Gallows Point was originally called "Osmund's Eyre" but it was renamed when the town gallows was erected there – along with a "Dead House" for the corpses of criminals dispatched in the public executions carried out there..
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