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
Tyra Banks book entitled "Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out". She announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, titled "Modelland", loosely based on her own modelling experience. It was published in September 2011, intended to be the first of a planned three-part series; "Modelland" topped "The New York Times" Best Seller list in October 2011. In 2018, Banks and her mother, Carolyn London, co-authored a book entitled "Perfect is Boring". In August 2016, Banks accepted a position as a personal branding guest lecturer at Stanford University. Banks dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s, and in January 2016