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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEAUMARIS , a See also:

market See also:town and municipal See also:borough, and the See also:county town of See also:Anglesey, N. See also:Wales, situated on the See also:Bay of Beaumaris, not far from Penmon, the See also:northern entrance of the Menai Strait. Pop. (1901) 2326. It has but one considerable See also:street. The large See also:castle See also:chapel, dedicated to the Virgin, has some See also:fine monuments. See also:David See also:Hughes, of Jesus See also:College, See also:Oxford, founded the See also:free See also:grammar school in 1603. Buildings include town-See also:hall and county-hall, with St See also:Mary's See also:church of the 13th See also:century, with See also:chancel of the 16th. Practically without See also:trade and with no manufactures, Beaumaris is principally noted as a bathing-See also:place. Its earliest See also:charter See also:dates from 1283 and was revised under See also:Elizabeth. The town was formerly called Barnover and, still earlier, Rhosfair, and bears its See also:present name of See also:French origin since See also:Edward I. built its castle in 1293. This extensive See also:building was erected on See also:low ground, so that the See also:fosse might communicate with the See also:sea, and vessels might unload under its walls.

The castle capitulated, after See also:

siege, to See also:General Mytton (1646).

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