Beaminster
Beaminster is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, positioned in the Dorset Council management area approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the tiny River Brit. The 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of Beaminster parish is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has been a centre of manufacture of bed linen as well as woollens, the raw products for which were generated in the surrounding countryside. The community experienced 3 significant fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, during the English Civil War, nearly ruined the material of the community. Beaminster parish church is significant for its architecture, specifically its tower.
