Just a short drive north of Bridport, Beaminster is a town known for its award-winning historic gardens and its colony of talented artists. Indeed, my friend, the late Roy Barrett lived and worked here. He was renowned mostly for his depiction of motorcycles and motorcycling, and indeed, our house is full of his wonderful work.
This is one of my favourites. It hangs in our lounge
Sadly, Roy passed away just before Christmas 2022. He will be sorely missed.
Beaminster is an attractive old market town in central Dorset. The town was a centre of the cloth trade, and it boasts a fine medieval church with a 16th-century tower. Many of the older buildings in Beaminster were destroyed in three devastating fires during the 17th and 18th centuries, but even so, there are still over 200 listed buildings in the historic town centre.
Beaminster was the boyhood home of the Arctic explorer, naturalist and author Samuel Hearne. Hearne is considered by some to have been the inspiration for the tragic figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Beaminster is the adopted home town of actor Martin Clunes.
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