Beaminster
Beaminster is a town and also civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council management location about 15 miles (24 kilometres) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the little River Brit. The 2013 mid-year quote of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of bed linen and also woollens, the raw materials for which were created in the bordering countryside. The community experienced three severe fires in the 17th and 18th centuries; the first of these, throughout the English Civil War, practically ruined the textile of the town. Beaminster parish church is significant for its design, specifically its tower.
