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 substantial hill settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres (705 feet) above water level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town looks into the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour container. From various perspectives, 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 as well as 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.