Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, close to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only considerable hill negotiation in Dorset, being developed regarding 215 metres (705 ft) above sea level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community evaluates the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From different viewpoints, it is feasible to see at least as far as Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the site of the previous Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred and turned into one of the richest spiritual establishments in the nation, prior to being damaged in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey site is Gold Hill, a high cobbled road used in the 1970s as the setup for Ridley Scott's tv promotion for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the town's civil parish had a population of 7,314.