Area Guide For 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. The town is built 718 ft (219 m) above sea level on the side of a chalk and greensand hill, which is part of Cranborne Chase, the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset. It is one of the oldest and highest towns in Britain. In the 2011 statistics the town's affable area had 3,493 dwellings, 3,235 families and a populace of 7,314. A considerable lot of the more established structures in the town are of the neighborhood greensand, while others assembled from the light black Chilmark limestone, a lot of which was rescued from the pulverized Shaftesbury Abbey, and have thatched tops. Tourism is one of the fundamental businesses. The town looks over the Blackmore Vale, some piece of the River Stour bowl. From distinctive perspectives, it is conceivable to see at any rate the extent that Glastonbury Tor to the northwest. An especially grand street is Gold Hill, the precarious cobbled road that film executive Ridley Scott utilized as the setting for a notorious TV notice for Hovis bread that was oftentimes telecast in the 1970s and 1980s. Shaftesbury is likewise celebrated for its demolished monastery and the close-by Wardour Castle. Around 2 mi (3 km) to the west of Shaftesbury climbs the tapered hill of Duncliffe Hill, noticeable for miles and home to Duncliffe Wood and a nature hold.