Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a community and also civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, near to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built concerning 215 metres (705 feet) above water 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 viewpoints, it is possible to see at least as for Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the site of the former Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred as well as turned into one of the richest religious facilities in the nation, prior to being damaged in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey site is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setup for Ridley Scott's tv ad for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.