Beer Hackett

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |official_name= Beer Hackett |local_name= |static_image_name= Church Farm, Beer Hackett - geograph.org.uk - 1567362.jpg |static_image_caption= Church Farm, Beer Hackett |population= 100 |population_ref= <ref name=dcc>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|publisher=Dorset County Council|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=18 February 2015|archive-date=2 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102112421/https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|url-status=dead}}</ref> |os_grid_reference= ST600118 |coordinates = {{coord|50.9044|-2.5714|display=inline,title}} |post_town= Sherborne |postcode_area= DT |postcode_district= DT9 |dial_code= |civil_parish= |unitary_england= [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset]] |lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]] |region= South West England |country= England |constituency_westminster= [[West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|West Dorset]] |london_distance= |website= }} '''Beer Hackett''' is a small village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in west [[Dorset]], [[England]], situated {{convert|3|mi|km}} southwest of [[Sherborne]] and {{convert|5|mi|km}} 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.<ref name=dcc/>

Beer Hackett was not recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3dWJnqv5lEC&q=beer+hackett+domesday&pg=PA116 |title=Domesday Gazetteer |first1=H |last1=Darby |first2=G |last2=Versey |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2008 |page=116 |isbn=9780521078580 |accessdate=18 February 2015}}</ref> The [[nave]] and west tower of the parish church were originally built in the early 15th century, though the whole building was radically [[Victorian restoration|restored]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol1/pp27-28 |title='Beer Hackett', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West (London, 1952), pp. 27-28 |publisher=University of London |work=British History Online |accessdate=18 February 2015}}</ref>

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[[Category:Villages in Dorset]]