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Edward I began the castle here in 1295 and the money ran out before it was finished, which is why it never got the height it was designed for. It is still called the most perfect concentric castle in Britain. It opens at half past nine from March to October and at ten through the winter, and until six in July and August.

Castle Street runs from the castle gates down to the green and the pier, and boats leave the pier through the season for Puffin Island and its grey seals. The front is a few hundred yards end to end, with the mountains in view for all of it.

By the 1820s Beaumaris was in trouble. The port trade had been going for fifty years — Thomas Pennant had written the place off in the 1770s as having “no trading of any kind” — and the town corporation decided the answer was to turn Beaumaris into a seaside resort and build something for visitors to stay in.

What they built was the Bulkeley. It went up on the seafront between 1829 and 1832, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, and the listing record is blunt about the reason: it was central to the corporation’s plan to reposition the town as a fashionable resort in the face of its declining maritime trade. Some of the stone came out of the medieval town wall, taken down the year before. It is Grade I listed now.

The timing was good. The hotel was newly open in August 1832 when the thirteen-year-old Princess Victoria came to Beaumaris with her mother for the eisteddfod, the Welsh festival of music and poetry, and stayed the best part of three weeks. Hansom and Welch stayed on to build Victoria Terrace along the front the following year. Hansom patented the hansom cab, the two-wheeled carriage that carries his name, in 1834.

The Bulkeley is still there and still a hotel, which is unusual for a building put up for that purpose almost two hundred years ago. It changed hands in 2025 and the new owners have refurbishment planned, so it is worth checking what is open when you book.

The rest are older and smaller. The Bull has been an inn on its site since 1472, though most of what you sleep in is seventeenth-century and later. Bishopsgate House is a Georgian townhouse that started life as a dower house, and the Liverpool Arms and the Bold Arms are both a short walk from the square.

Book early for the regatta fortnight at the turn of July and August, because a town with this few rooms fills for it a long way ahead.