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 considerable hilltop negotiation in Dorset, being developed regarding 215 metres (705 feet) 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 different point of views, it is possible to see at least as far as Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the site of the former Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred and became one of the wealthiest spiritual facilities in the country, before being damaged in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey website is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setup for Ridley Scott's television advertisement for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.