The most gift shops in North Wales? My tour of Beaumaris on Anglesey & I see the longest place name!

Does this town have the most gift shops of anywhere in North Wales? Join me on my tour of Beaumaris on Anglesey, with a full walkabout the old town and sample some of the local foods. Also stay tuned as I visit the longest place name in Wales, possibly the world! Have you been here? Can you pronounce this place name? let me know in the comments too!

Beaumaris was originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr ("Port of the Vikings"), but the town itself 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).

The 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 "fair marsh".

In 2018, Netflix used Beaumaris as the fictional seaside town (and in particular the pier) for the series Free Rein.

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