Beaminster all round, Wi' hedges, reachèn up between A thousand vields o' zummer green. </poem> It is a location for part of the story for the post-apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids. Samuel Hearne explorer, naturalist and writer grew up in Beaminster. Beaminster is the adopted hometown of actor Martin Clunes, and was where singer PJ Harvey went to school. Mat Follas had his first restaurant The Wild Garlic in the town square, though in 2013 it was moved to larger premises elsewhere. Beaminster is also home of Lynne Reid Banks, author of "The L-Shaped Room" and "The Indian in
Lynn Rainbow Lynn Rainbow Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid (born 19 September 1942) is an Australian-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy. Lynn was the daughter of Judge Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur. She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on Australian television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police". She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series "The Group". From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally