Shaftesbury
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Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres above sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase.
High Street
Old milestone in Blandford Forum showing use of the name Shaston for Shaftesbury
The ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey
Edwardstowe
Hovis
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Hovis Ltd is a British company that produces flour, yeast
and bread. Founded in Stoke-on-Trent, it began mass-production in Macclesfield in 1886.
Hovis's managing director giving a pep talk to staff in 1935
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, where Ridley Scott filmed the 1973 Hovis commercial
Hovis bread monument at Gold Hill