An earlier Beaminster Grammar School existed in the town in the 18th century, and one of its Masters, the Rev.

A fund was opened to provide more accommodation, and the local member of parliament, Colonel Robert Williams, donated £300.

[3] Writing about the 1910s fifty years later, old boy Ralph Wightman recalled that "The masters were kindly, and corporal punishment was almost unknown.

I was at Beaminster under two Headmasters, and the second, Mr L. Skyrm, did not cane anyone..."[4] He remembered that in those days most children had gone to school by bicycle, but about eight had ridden in on horses, “…and the way home usually started with a race.”[5] This continued into the 1920s.

[11] However, in December 1962 the school was closed, largely because its small size of about 150 pupils made it relatively expensive to operate.