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Beaumaris on the Anglesey Island coast is a 10 minute drive from Chateau Rhianfa and a 50 minute drive from the Snowdon area in good traffic. It has several accommodation options. Originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr (‘Port of the Vikings’), the ‘modern’ town began its development in 1295 when Edward I of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast (others include Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech castles). This castle was built on a marsh and that is where it found its name; the Norman-French builders called it beaux marais which translates as ‘beautiful marshes’. In the 17th century the nearby Gallows Point – a spit of land extending into the Menai Strait became the location of the town gallows – along with a ‘Dead House’ for the corpses of criminals dispatched in public executions. One of the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris issued a curse before he died – decreeing that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would never show the same time. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumaris).