Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Dorset, England. It is positioned on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, near to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hill settlement in Dorset, being developed about 215 metres (705 ft) above water level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town evaluates the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour container. From different viewpoints, it is feasible to see a minimum of as far as Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. Shaftesbury is the website 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, before being destroyed in the Dissolution in 1539. Beside the abbey website is Gold Hill, a high cobbled street made use of in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's tv promotion for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.