Beaminster is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Council management location roughly 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 quote of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of bed linen and also woollens, the raw products for which were created in the surrounding countryside. The community experienced three severe fires in the 17th as well as 18th centuries; the very first of these, during the English Civil War, almost ruined the fabric of the town. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its design, especially its tower.