Beaminster
Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council administrative location around 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 parish is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has been a centre of manufacture of bed linen and also woollens, the raw materials for which were generated in the surrounding countryside. The town experienced 3 serious fires in the 17th and 18th centuries; the very first of these, during the English Civil War, virtually ruined the material of the town. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its architecture, especially its tower.