Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in , England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of and 23 miles north-northeast of , near the border with .
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  • Town with 9,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 679 feet (207 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code QUK
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as
    “Sceptesberie”
    “Shaftesbury, Dorset”
    “Shaston”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shaftesbury Abbey and Westminster Memorial Hospital.
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was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, .
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The is a small community hospital in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England.
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is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melbury Abbas and Duncliffe Wood.
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is a village and civil parish in north , . is situated 2 miles southeast of Shaftesbury.
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is an ancient woodland on the summit… is situated 2½ miles west of Shaftesbury.

Shaftesbury

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Latitude
51.0061° or 51° 0′ 22″ north
Longitude
-2.1961° or 2° 11′ 46″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB SHB
Open location code
9C3V2R43+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21583226
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638157
Wiki­data ID
Q631444

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Shaftesbury” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شافتسبري”
  • Armenian: “Շաֆտսբերի”
  • Asturian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Basque: “Shaftesbury”
  • Belarusian: “Шафтэсберы”
  • Belarusian: “Шафтэсбэры”
  • Bengali: “শ্যাফটবুরি”
  • Catalan: “Shaftesbury”
  • Cebuano: “Shaftesbury”
  • Chinese: “沙夫茨伯里”
  • Chinese: “萨夫特斯布利”
  • Chinese: “薩夫特斯布利”
  • Cornish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Czech: “Shaftesbury”
  • Danish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Dutch: “Shaftesbury”
  • Esperanto: “Shaftesbury”
  • French: “Shaftesbury”
  • German: “Shaftesbury”
  • Greek: “Σάφτεσμπουρι”
  • Gujarati: “શાફટેસબરી”
  • Hebrew: “שאפטסבורי”
  • Indonesian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Irish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Italian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Japanese: “シャフツベリー”
  • Japanese: “シャフテスブリー”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾಫ್ಟ್ಸ್ಬರಿ”
  • Korean: “샤프츠버리”
  • Ladin: “Shaftesbury”
  • Latin: “Sceftonia”
  • Lithuanian: “Šaftseberis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shaftesbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shaftesbury”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shaftesbury”
  • Norwegian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Persian: “شافتسبوری”
  • Polish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Portuguese: “Shaftesbury”
  • Romanian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Russian: “Шафтесбери”
  • Russian: “Шафтсбери”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shaftesbury”
  • Slovak: “Shaftesbury”
  • Slovenian: “Shaftesbury”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شافتسبوری”
  • Spanish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Swedish: “Shaftesbury”
  • Tamil: “சாப்பிடேஸ்புரி”
  • Telugu: “షాఫ్ట్స్ బరీ”
  • Urdu: “شافتیسبوری”
  • Urdu: “شافٹسبری”
  • Volapük: “Shaftesbury”
  • Welsh: “Shaftesbury, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Shaftesbury”

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