Beaminster
Beaminster is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council administrative location about 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 estimate of the population of Beaminster church is 3,100. In its history Beaminster has actually been a centre of manufacture of bed linen and woollens, the raw materials for which were generated in the surrounding countryside. The town experienced three major fires in the 17th and also 18th centuries; the first of these, throughout the English Civil War, nearly damaged the material of the town. Beaminster parish church is remarkable for its style, especially its tower.