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Tucked into a natural bowl at the head of the Brit Valley, Beaminster is a town defined largely by its geography and its local Ham stone. It sits in a designated National Landscape, surrounded by the steep, green hills of West Dorset, including the high points of Lewesdon and Pilsdon Pen. Historically, the town’s prosperity was built on the manufacture of sailcloth and rope, a legacy still visible in the spacious proportions of the square and the scale of the 16th-century church tower. Today, life tends to centre around that same market square, where the independent shops and businesses provide a self-sufficiency that is rare for a town of its size. It lacks a railway station - the nearest is five miles away in Crewkerne - which has preserved a certain quietude, though the A3066 runs through the centre, connecting it to Bridport and the coast six miles to the south. It feels very much like a working country town, shaped by the landscape that hems it in on three sides.