Official Name: | Beer Hackett |
Static Image Name: | Church Farm, Beer Hackett - geograph.org.uk - 1567362.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Church Farm, Beer Hackett |
Population: | 100 |
Population Ref: | [1] |
Os Grid Reference: | ST600118 |
Coordinates: | 50.9044°N -2.5714°W |
Post Town: | Sherborne |
Postcode Area: | DT |
Postcode District: | DT9 |
Unitary England: | Dorset |
Shire County: | Dorset |
Region: | South West England |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | West Dorset |
Beer Hackett is a small village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated 3miles southwest of Sherborne and 5miles southeast of Yeovil. The civil parish includes the small settlement of Knighton to the east. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the civil parish is 100.[1]
Beer Hackett was not recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.[2] The nave and west tower of the parish church were originally built in the early 15th century, though the whole building was radically restored in the 19th century.[3]