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, close to the border with Wiltshire. It is the only substantial hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres (705 ft) above sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From different perspectives, it is possible to see a minimum of as for Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the site of the former Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred and also turned into one of the wealthiest religious establishments in the nation, before being destroyed in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey site is Gold Hill, a high cobbled road used 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.