Cognac Hine

Admirers of Thomas Hardy, the 19th Century Poet and Novelist, who visit West Dorset, the South Wessex described in Hardy’s work, will at some point visit the small Town of Beaminster. Beaminster (pronounced ‘Beminster’) built in the golden Ham Hill stone of the region, is the real name of Hardy’s fictional town of Emminster in his novel ‘Tess of the D’Ubervilles’ Beaminster was also much loved by William Barnes, the 19th century Dorset Poet, who wrote of this peaceful place : 'Sweet Be'mi'ster, that bist abound By green an' woody hills all round, Wi' hedges, reachen up between A ...