Beaminster

13°CClear

• Today: 20° / 12° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:34

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

6 reported · July 2026▼ 40% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour2
• Other theft2
• Criminal damage & arson1
• Public order1

Neighbourhood team: Bridport · Dorset

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

686 reported road collisions (2024)

156 killed or seriously injured · 883 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

33 food businesses within 2 miles

• 32 rated 4–5 ★ (30 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Crewkerne (7.5 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£325,410 average▲ 1.6% YoY

Across Dorset · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,051 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £728
• 2 bed £961
• 3 bed £1,184

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

9.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.9 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · Esso (8.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Morrisons (9.5 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 43 kW
• Nearest: Yarn Barton Car Park (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools4
• Sports pitches9
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

379,579 residents in Dorset · 152/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 197 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,765 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 187,680)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

184 schools · 51,332 pupils

119 primary · 18 secondary · 47 other

Ofsted: 68 of 86 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

158inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dorset

385 CQC-registered services

• Care homes121
• GP practices59
• Dentists84
• Homecare agencies86
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Dorset

• In a conservation area (Beaminster Conservation Area 2)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 169 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

662 applications decided

92.4% granted · 612 granted, 50 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 2
• Con 30
• LD 42
• Grn 4
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens69
• Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

20,515 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

88 jobs advertised · £31,071 avg

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Source: Adzuna

£737 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,403 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 186,790 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.6 women · 65.3 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in West Dorset:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership477 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s335 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership317 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office287 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks237 local signatures · 49,615 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Beaminster Grammar School · 0.1 km

  Beaminster Grammar School, known in its final years as Beaminster and Netherbury Grammar School, was a small grammar school in the town of Beaminster, in Dorset, England, founded about 1868 and closed in 1962.

• Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred · 0.1 km

  Beaminster Forum & Redhone Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:Beaminster Bradpole Chedington Chardstock Corscombe Mapperton Mosterton Netherbury North Poorton…

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  Beaminster Rural District · 0.2 km

  Beaminster Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Dorset, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the west of the county around the small town of Beaminster.

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  Beaminster · 0.2 km

  Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit. The popula…

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  Holy Trinity Church, Beaminster · 0.3 km

  Holy Trinity Church is a former Church of England church in Beaminster, Dorset, England. The church was built in 1849–51 and made redundant in 1978. It is now a private residence known as Trefoil House.

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  Beaminster School · 0.4 km

  Beaminster School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Beaminster in the English county of Dorset.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)