What is "beaumaris"

Beaumaris (; ) is a former royal borough, a community, and the former county town of Anglesey, Wales. It was located in the commote of Dindaethwy and historic rural deanery of Tindaethwy, and is at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the coast of North Wales. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,040, reducing to 1,938 at the 2011 Census.

Beaumaris was a parliamentary borough in Anglesey, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1553, then to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished. After 1832, the constituency was usually known as the Beaumaris District of Boroughs or simply the Beaumaris Boroughs.

Beaumaris can refer to:

• Beaumaris, a town in Wales, UK, and related to it:
  • Beaumaris Castle
  • Beaumaris Gaol
  • Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency)
• Beaumaris, Victoria, a suburb in Victoria, Australia.
• Beaumaris Bay
• Beaumaris, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada.
• Beaumaris, Ontario, a settlement on Lake Muskoka in Ontario, Canada