Beaminster
Beaminster is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council administrative location approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the resource of the little River Brit. The 2013 mid-year quote of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of linen as well as woollens, the raw materials for which were created in the bordering countryside. The community experienced three major fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, during the English Civil War, virtually damaged the fabric of the town. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its design, specifically its tower.