And here's the last of Edward's purpose-built castles. Beaumaris, meaning "beautiful marsh", on the island of Anglesey. Seen here with the mountains of Snowdonia behind. Begun after the great Welsh rebellion of 1294-5, Beaumaris was never fully completed. Edward, tied down by wars with Scotland and France ran out of funds, and none of his successors ever finished Beaumaris either. So its walls and towers are lower than would have been intended. The Castle didn't have a very eventful history, possibly because it was difficult to defend. Probably the people most affected by it were the original Welsh inhabitants of the area, who were transplanted to the other end of Anglesey to make way for an English town.
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