Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is a community as well as civil parish in Dorset, England. It is located on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury, close to the boundary with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop negotiation in Dorset, being constructed concerning 215 metres (705 feet) above sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The community examines the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. From different perspectives, it is possible to see a minimum of as far as 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 establishments in the nation, 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 television ad for Hovis bread. In the 2011 census the community's civil parish had a population of 7,314.