Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is positioned on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, close to the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hill negotiation in Dorset, being built concerning 215 metres (705 feet) over sea level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From different viewpoints, it is possible to see a minimum of as for Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the website of the former Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded in 888 by King Alfred as well as became one of the wealthiest spiritual facilities in the nation, before being destroyed in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey website is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street made use of 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.