Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a community and 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 considerable hilltop negotiation in Dorset, being constructed regarding 215 metres (705 feet) above water 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 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 also became one of the wealthiest religious facilities in the nation, prior to being ruined in the Dissolution in 1539. Adjacent to the abbey site is Gold Hill, a high cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setup for Ridley Scott's tv advertisement for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.