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 resource of the little River Brit. The 2013 mid-year price quote of the population of Beaminster parish is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of linen and woollens, the raw products for which were created in the bordering countryside. The town experienced 3 severe fires in the 17th as well as 18th centuries; the first of these, during the English Civil War, almost destroyed the fabric of the town. Beaminster parish church is remarkable for its architecture, particularly its tower.
