Beaminster
Beaminster is a village and also civil parish in Dorset, England, positioned in the Dorset Council administrative area around 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the resource of the small River Brit. The 2013 mid-year price quote of the population of Beaminster parish is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has been a centre of manufacture of linen as well as woollens, the raw materials for which were generated in the bordering countryside. The community experienced three serious fires in the 17th as well as 18th centuries; the initial of these, during the English Civil War, virtually damaged the fabric of the community. Beaminster parish church is significant for its style, specifically its tower.