Beaminster is well placed in the beautiful county of Dorset for visitors to enjoy a vacation or short break with the area providing plenty of diverse accommodation and great opportunities to enjoy the local hospitality so whether your choice is a hotel or self catering establishment the choice is there.
Exploring Beaminster located in the county of Dorset is amongst the most appealing towns of its size to be found in the South West of England and has the advantage of being set in a beautiful country area of steep hills of laid out farmland. This undulating town which is centred on and around a square is largely of a yellow stone taken from Ham Hill and used for the towns major buildings with local quarries providing the rest.
Beaminster was almost destroyed by fire when the Royalist troops were stationed in it during the Civil War and was also damaged by other fires in 1684 and I781. Beaminster was rebuilt in the same manner as Blandford, though in a very different, less urban style.
Luckily the church was left unscathed by the changes to the town providing possibly the most splendid tower dating from the early 16th century magnificently pinnacled and figure sculptured in the county of Dorset. The churches interior restoration took place in the 19th century, there is also a grand monument dating from 1753 to George Strode and his wife dressed as Romans. Just to the north west of the churchyard where you will find pretty alms houses dating from 1603.
The Strodes family who lived at Parnham just some one mile to the south south west domiciled in one of the best the best Tudor houses in Dorset which is frequently open or, if not, can be seen by appointment.
Some two miles south east you will discover another fine and basically Tudor house called Mapperton the gardens of which are occasionally open.
The population of the village located in the area was wiped out by the Great Plague off 1660.
Netherbury which is located to the south west and Stoke Abbot just two miles to the west are pretty villages well worth a visit Stoke Abbot particularly so reached by tunnel like lanes and within its center a particularly attractive 18th century farm house. Netherbury which also has a notable l4th to 15th century church.
Melpash Court which is to be found some two miles to the south provides another Tudor building which can be viewed from the A3066 very occasionally its gardens are open.
- Beaminster Geolocation Latitude 51.2683593° N Longitude -1.0894337° E
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