Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
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Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. The view looking down from the top of the street has been described as "one of the most romantic sights
Gold Hill with buttressed precinct wall of Shaftesbury Abbey to the right
Viewed from the bottom
Hovis bread monument at Gold Hill
Shaftesbury Abbey
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Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to K
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
…Hill Museum building but now houses a shop. The cobbled street runs beside buttressed walls of the precinct, which are the grounds surrounding ancient Shaftesbury Abbey, built by King Alfred the Great. The walls are a scheduled monument. Their origins are not known, but are presumed to have been built in the 1360s…
Shaftesbury Abbey ruins
Grave slab of Sir Thomas Scales, Deacon of the High Altar at Shaftesbury Abbey, died 1532. Found during excavation of the nave in 1931.
Lion and Flower Floor Tile from Shaftesbury Abbey collection
Priest Coffin Lid carved in Purbeck Marble from Shaftesbury Abbey collection