Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town and also civil parish in Dorset, England. It is positioned on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, near to the border with Wiltshire. It is the only substantial hill settlement in Dorset, being constructed regarding 215 metres (705 ft) above water level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From various viewpoints, it is feasible to see a minimum of 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 and turned into one of the wealthiest religious establishments in the nation, prior to being damaged in the Dissolution in 1539. Adjacent to the abbey site is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's television ad for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the town's civil parish had a population of 7,314.