Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England. It is located on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, near to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop negotiation in Dorset, being developed concerning 215 metres (705 ft) over sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour container. From different perspectives, it is feasible to see at the very least as far as Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the website of the former Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred as well as turned into one of the richest religious establishments in the country, prior to being destroyed in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey site is Gold Hill, a high cobbled road made use of in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's tv advertisement for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the town's civil parish had a population of 7,314.