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Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in , England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of , near the border with .
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  • Type: Town with 7,310 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Sceptesberie”, “Shaftesbury, Dorset”, and “Shaston”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shaftesbury Abbey and Westminster Memorial Hospital.

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, . It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII.

Hospital
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The is a small community hospital in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. It provides about 20 in-patient beds, a minor injuries department, a range of out-patient clinics and other support services. It opened in 1874.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, , England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Shaftsbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melbury Abbas and Duncliffe Wood.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in north , . It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of , 2 miles south-southwest of the town of Shaftesbury. is situated 2 miles southeast of Shaftesbury.

Locality
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is an ancient woodland on the summit of , a few miles west of Shaftesbury. The area of the site is 92.16 hectares, making it one of the largest ancient woodlands in North Dorset. is situated 2½ miles west of Shaftesbury.

Shaftesbury

Latitude
51.0056° or 51° 0′ 20″ north
Longitude
-2.1956° or 2° 11′ 44″ west
Population
7,310
Elevation
679 feet (207 metres)
IATA airport code
QUK
United Nations Location Code
GB SHB
Open location code
9C3V2R43+6Q
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: “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”
  • “Shaftesbury”

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