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, near to the border with Wiltshire. It is the only considerable hill settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres (705 ft) over sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town looks into the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From various viewpoints, it is feasible to see a minimum of as for Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the site of the previous Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred and also became one of the richest spiritual facilities in the country, prior to being ruined in the Dissolution in 1539. Adjacent to the abbey site is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled road used in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's tv ad for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.
