Beaminster
Beaminster is a town and also civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 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 quote of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has been a centre of manufacture of bed linen and also woollens, the raw products for which were created in the bordering countryside. The community experienced three severe fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, throughout the English Civil War, almost destroyed the material of the community. Beaminster parish church is remarkable for its architecture, especially its tower.