Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, near to the border with Wiltshire. It is the only substantial hill settlement in Dorset, being constructed concerning 215 metres (705 ft) over sea level on a greensand hillside on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community looks over the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From various perspectives, it is possible to see at the very least as for 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 nation, prior to being ruined in the Dissolution in 1539. Adjacent to the abbey website is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street made use of in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott's tv ad for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.