Beaminster
Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, positioned in the Dorset Council administrative area approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the resource of the tiny 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 bed linen and also woollens, the raw products for which were generated in the surrounding countryside. The town experienced 3 serious fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, during the English Civil War, practically destroyed the material of the town. Beaminster parish church is notable for its style, especially its tower.