Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town and also 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 considerable hill settlement in Dorset, being developed regarding 215 metres (705 feet) above sea level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour container. From different viewpoints, it is feasible to see at the very least regarding Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the website of the previous Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred as well as became one of the richest spiritual establishments in the country, before being destroyed in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey site is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's television advertisement for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the town's civil parish had a population of 7,314.