Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is located on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, close to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only substantial hilltop negotiation in Dorset, being constructed concerning 215 metres (705 feet) above sea level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community looks into the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From various point of views, it is possible to see at least regarding Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the website of the previous Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred and turned into one of the richest religious facilities in the country, prior to being ruined in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey website is Gold Hill, a high cobbled road used in the 1970s as the setup for Ridley Scott's tv advertisement for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the town's civil parish had a population of 7,314.