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Beaminster, Dorset
Beaminster maps
Historic maps of Beaminster and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Beaminster maps
Historic map of Beaminster
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
Historic Map of any Beaminster postcode
Beaminster books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Beaminster and the local area. View all Beaminster books
Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
Weymouth Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26
1 Beaminster photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Beaminster
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I don't have a memory as such, but a lot of my family were born and bred in Beaminster, which I had a very brief visit to in 2009, I found it a very nice little village and would loved to have been able to stay longer and trace some of my family haunts and maybe been able to have come... [more]
Shared on 24 February 2010
My folks live in Beaminster, and I also did in the early 1980s, and remember Furze Lane. The lane goes up from the Bridport Road across country to the Posy Tree at Mapperton. Although it has changed now, i.e. widened, as it is now suitable for vehicles, I think that the building on the left could be the farm buildings at... [more]
Shared on 19 April 2009
Dorset memories
I am looking for information on Robert Elwell or family in Stoke Abbott around 1610.
Robert Elwell sailed on the ship Recovery in March 1633 to the Massachusetts Bay in America.
Shared on 13 January 2010
I have happy memories of Corscombe. Having been evacuated from Southampton at the age of eight years. I do remember attending the small school a short distance from where I lived in a small house that had been converted into two living quarters
I have not been back to Corscombe since those wartime days.
Shared on 10 December 2008
Childhood In Powerstock and Eggardon
Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before moving to Somerset. I have visited with my family several times over the years and stayed at the Three Horse Shoes pub... [more]
Shared on 30 November 2009
We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of children with some adults, outside a building which must have been a chapel or a school. From the clothes... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2007
Haywards of Loders - family tree search
Hello from Australia to Loders,
Researching on-line family Thomas Hayward, m Mary Anne Dodge 1808 November in Sherborne church. Already one gggg cousin Jill Hayward left an entry but has not made contact. Another gggg cousin Ingrid Wilson in Wallingford, Berkshire has made contact via this website.
Thomas's son John went to farm in Englefield, Berkshire and is my... [more]
Shared on 12 July 2009
Wondering if anyone knows of Hayward family, buried in the churchyard surrounds, that farmed in the Loders area back to at least 1750 or further back. Any info for family tree welcome.
Shared on 17 August 2007
Extracts From Beaminster & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Beaminster, inspired by Frith photos.
Beaminster today is not so very different from the old Dorset village that the dialect poet William Barnes would have known. Its name is always pronounced Be'mister as in Barnes's famous poem, and it remains the quaint old market town it always was.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach. The New Inn, shown here, was favoured by rural workers who would come to sample Mr Weaver's famous ales.
This is an extract from Dorset Pocket Album.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach. The New Inn, shown here, was favoured by rural workers who would come to sample Mr Weaver's famous ales.
This is an extract from Dorset Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
