Beaminster
Beaminster is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, positioned 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 resource of the tiny River Brit. The 2013 mid-year quote of the population of Beaminster parish is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of bed linen as well as woollens, the raw materials for which were produced in the bordering countryside. The town experienced three severe fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the very first of these, during the English Civil War, nearly ruined the textile of the town. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its architecture, particularly its tower.