Beaminster
Beaminster is a village and also civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council administrative area roughly 15 miles (24 kilometres) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the little River Brit. The 2013 mid-year price quote of the population of Beaminster parish 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 bordering countryside. The community experienced three major fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the initial of these, during the English Civil War, practically ruined the textile of the community. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its style, especially its tower.