| Shaftesbury | |
  Shaftesbury shown within Dorset |
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| Population | 6,665 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | North Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHAFTESBURY |
| Postcode district | SP7 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Dorset |
| List of places: UK • England • Dorset | |
Shaftesbury is a town in North Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. Gold Hill is a hill and a famous street in Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The districts of England are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government Settlements Towns with a population over 2500 are in bold. Anderson, Ashmore Belchalwell Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of Local government outside Greater London Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one South West England is one of the Regions of England. It is the largest such region in terms of area and extends from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire to Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The, also known as the Salisbury postcode area, is a group of postal districts around Andover, Fordingbridge, Gillingham, Salisbury The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Dorset Police is the Home Office Police force with the responsibility of policing the English County of Dorset. The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Dorset Fire and Rescue Service is the Statutory Fire and Rescue Service for the area of Dorset, South West England. Divisions & Stations The trust is split into 2 divisions West - Devon and Cornwall including West Divisional HQ 999 and PTS Control at South West England is a Constituency of the European Parliament. This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election North Dorset is a County constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates List of places --> List of cities in the United Kingdom List of towns in England Lists of places This is a list of settlements and other places in Dorset, England. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The A30 is an old Trunk road (main road which runs from central London to Land's End, the westernmost point of the mainland of southern Great Britain ( though Etymology The county formerly 'Wiltonshire' or 'Wiltunscir' (9th century is named after the former county town of Wilton (itself named after the River Wylye A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Salisbury (ˈsɒlzbri ˈsɔːlzbri ('Solzbry' or ˈzɔːwzbri ('Zawzbry' — moving from RP to local dialect) is a cathedral city in the The town is built 750 feet (over 200 metres) 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. 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In 2001, the town had a population of 6,665 with 3,112 dwellings, only a small increase from 1991. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology There are currently 5 primary schools and an enlarged secondary school. Major employers include Pork Farms, Stalbridge Linen (a commercial laundry), HMP Guy's Marsh, Wessex Electrical and the Royal Mail. Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom.
Many of the older buildings in the town are of the local greensand, while others built from the grey Chilmark limestone, much of which was salvaged from the demolished Shaftesbury Abbey, and have thatched roofs. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Tourism is one of the main industries in the town. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel
The town looks over the Blackmore Vale, part of the river Stour basin. The Blackmore Vale (less commonly spelt Blackmoor) is a Vale, or wide Valley, in North Dorset, and to a lesser extent South The River Stour is a 605 Mile (97 Km) long River which flows through Wiltshire and Dorset in southern England, and From different viewpoints, it is possible to see at least as far as Glastonbury Tor to the north-west. Glastonbury Tor is a Hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, which features the roofless St
The town is famous for Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street featured on the cover of countless books about Dorset and rural England. Gold Hill is a hill and a famous street in Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. It was perhaps most famously used as the street in the popular Ridley Scott-directed Hovis bread advertisement used through the 1970s and '80s. Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear) is a British Academy Award Nominated and Golden Globe Emmy Award and BAFTA Award winning Hovis is a UK Brand of Flour and Bread, now owned by Premier Foods. The hill most recently featured in a Morrisons supermarket advert, also for bread. Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC ( is the fourth largest chain of Supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The town is also famous for its ruined Abbey and nearby Wardour Castle. Wardour Castle is located near Tisbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury.
A market is held in the town on Thursdays. Sao Paulo Stock Exchangejpg|thumb| Virtual market arena where buyer and seller are not present and trade via intemediates and electronical information The Blackmore Vale is Thomas Hardy's Vale of the Little Dairies, and until 2004 Shaftesbury was the location of one of the last remaining livestock markets in Britain. Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw The site has since been redeveloped as a supermarket.
The town features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as Shaston, of particular significance in Jude the Obscure. The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in the south and southwest of England. Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy 's Novels begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895.
Actor Robert Newton, best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver, was born in Shaftesbury. Robert Newton ( June 1 1905 – March 25 1956) was a noted English stage and film Actor. Long John Silver is a Fictional character in the Novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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History
Although Shaftesbury's recorded history dates from Anglo-Saxon times, it may have been the Celtic Caer Palladur. The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of Early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon Celts (ˈkɛlts or /ˈsɛlts/, see Names of the Celts Its first written record as a town is in the Burghal Hidage. The Burghal Hidage is an Anglo-Saxon document providing a list of Wessex 's fortified burhs Alfred the Great founded a Burgh (fortified settlement) here in 880 as a defence in the struggle with the Danish invaders. Alfred the Great (also Ælfred from the Old English Ælfrēd ˈælfreːd (c A Burgh (ˈbʌʀə is an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland, usually a Town. Alfred and his daughter Ethelgiva founded Shaftesbury Abbey in 888, which was a spur to the growing importance of the town. Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Athelstan founded three royal mints, which struck pennies bearing the town's name, and the abbey became the wealthiest Benedictine nunnery in England. Benedictine refers to the Spirituality and Consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or On February 20th 981 the relics of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham and received at the Abbey with great ceremony, thereafter turning Shaftesbury into a major site of pilgrimage for miracles of healing. Edward the Martyr or Eadweard II (c 962&ndash 18 March 978) was King of England from 975 until he was murdered in 978 In 1240 Cardinal Otto, legate to the Apostolic See of Pope Gregory IX visited the abbey and confirmed a charter of 1191, the first entered in the Glastonbury chartulary. Pope Gregory IX, born Ugolino di Conti, was Pope from March 19, 1227 to August Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a Dry point on the Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. Chartulary (ˈkaɹʧʊˌlɛɹi renders two Latin words for a collection of charters viz
King Canute died here in 1035. } Canute the Great, also known as Cnut in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, or Knut ( Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Norwegian In the Domesday Book, the town was known as Scaepterbyrg; its ownership was equally shared between King and Abbey. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey The Abbey was in the Middle Ages the central focus of the town.
In 1260, a charter to hold a market was granted. Sao Paulo Stock Exchangejpg|thumb| Virtual market arena where buyer and seller are not present and trade via intemediates and electronical information In 1392, Richard II confirmed a grant of two markets on different days. Richard II (6 January 1367 &ndash ca 14 February 1400 was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399 By 1340, the mayor had become a recognised figure, sworn in by the Steward of the Abbess. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government
In 1539, the last Abbess of Shaftesbury, Elizabeth Zouche, signed a deed of surrender, the (by then extremely wealthy) abbey was demolished, and its lands sold, leading to a temporary decline in the town. Sir Thomas Arundel of Wardour purchased the abbey and much of the town in 1540, but when he was later exiled for treason his lands were forfeit, and the lands passed to Pembroke then Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and finally to the Grosvenors. Thomas Arundel (1353 - 19 February 1414 was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death an outspoken opponent of the Lollards Exile means to be away from one's home (ie city state or country while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. Anthony Ashley Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (28 April 1801 &ndash 1 October 1885 styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851 was an English Politician and
Shaftesbury was a parliamentary constituency returning two members from 1296 to the Reform Act of 1832, when it was reduced to one, and in 1884 the separate constituency was abolished. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures goals or loyalty The Representation of the People Act 1832, commonly known as the Reform Act 1832, was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system
The town was broadly Parliamentarian in the Civil War, but was in Royalist hands. The English Civil War (1642-1651 was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War ( 1642 &ndash 1651 Wardour Castle fell to Parliamentary forces in 1643; Parliamentary forces surrounded the town in August 1645, when it was a centre of local Clubmen activity. Wardour Castle is located near Tisbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury. Clubmen were bands of vigilantes during the English Civil War ( 1642 &ndash 1651) who tried to protect their localities against the worst excesses of the The clubmen were arrested and sent to trial in Sherborne. Sherborne is an affluent Market town in north west Dorset, England, situated on the River Yeo Shaftesbury took no part in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. This is about the Welsh town of Monmouth For other uses see Monmouth (disambiguation.
The town hall was built in 1827 by Earl Grosvenor after the Guildhall was pulled down to widen the high street. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building. English Heritage is a Non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government ( Department for Culture Media and Sport) with a broad remit of A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance [2] The town hall is next to the 15th century St Peters church. [3]
The major employers in the 18th and 19th centuries were buttonmaking and weaving. The former became a victim of mechanisation, and this caused unemployment and emigration.
The five turnpikes which met at Shaftesbury ensured that the town had a good coaching trade. The railways, however, bypassed Shaftesbury, and this influenced the subsequent pattern of its growth.
In 1919, Lord Stalbridge sold a large portion of the town, which was purchased by a syndicate and auctioned piece by piece over three days. Stalbridge is a small town and Parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale area of North Dorset district near "Auctioneer" redirects here For the DC Comics supervillain see Auctioneer (comics.
Most of the Saxon and Medieval buildings have now been ruined, with most of the town dating from the 18th century to present. For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south Thomas Hardy wrote:
- "Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal Abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel. Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw "
See also
References
- ^ Census 2001
- ^ Town Hall. St Mary’s School, located in a rural setting near Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, is a Catholic boarding and day school which welcomes girls Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. During 2001 population Censuses were conducted in Australia: See Census in Australia Austria: See Demographics of Austria Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-12-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II
- ^ Church of St Peter. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-12-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II
- Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1979. Dorset. London: Faber & Faber.
- The 1985 AA illustrated guide to the country towns and villages of Britain.
External links
- Shaftesbury Town Web Site
- Shaftesbury, Dorset Community Website
- Photos of Shaftesbury in 3d (anaglyph images)
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