Beaminster
Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, located in the Dorset Council administrative area roughly 15 miles (24 km) 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 price quote of the population of Beaminster parish is 3,100. In its background Beaminster has been a centre of manufacture of linen and also woollens, the raw materials for which were created in the bordering countryside. The community experienced 3 severe fires in the 17th as well as 18th centuries; the initial of these, throughout the English Civil War, almost damaged the textile of the town. Beaminster parish church is noteworthy for its style, particularly its tower.