Beaminster
Beaminster is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council management area about 15 miles (24 kilometres) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit. The 2013 mid-year price quote of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of linen and woollens, the raw materials for which were produced in the bordering countryside. The town experienced 3 major fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, throughout the English Civil War, almost damaged the material of the community. Beaminster parish church is remarkable for its style, especially its tower.