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4 unusual facts about Beaumaris


Bangor Mountain

There are several rocky outcrops at high points on the mountain providing panoramic views of the city centre, the Menai Strait and over to the east of Anglesey, including the town of Beaumaris.

Beaumaris, Victoria

Clarice Beckett lived in Beaumaris and painted many landscapes of the area.

Harry Longueville Jones

Before 1846 Jones moved to Beaumaris, and in 1849 was appointed Inspector for schools in Wales in the Privy Council Office.

Williams-Bulkeley baronets

The eighth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Beaumaris while the ninth Baronet represented Caernarvonshire and Beaumaris.


Cecilia McDowall

Future works include commissions from the BBC for Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, the winner of the BBC Radio 3 2008 Choir of the Year: the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, David Juritz, violin, conductor, Anthony Hose at the Beaumaris Festival; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Edmund Knoll-Kownacki

He died on September 2, 1953 and was buried at the Beaumaris cemetery in Llangefni, Wales.

Lancelot Bulkeley

He was the eleventh and youngest son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris and Cheadle, but the eldest by his second wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Needham of Stenton.


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