Beer-Hackett, a parish in Dorsetshire, near Yetminstcr station on the G.W.R., 5 miles SE by S of Yeovil. It includes the hamlet of Knighton, and its post town is Yetminster, under Sherborne, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 918; population, 85. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £180. The church is a stone building in the Perpendicular style, rebuilt in 1882.
