- Shaftesbury is Dorset's
only hill top town built on the edge of a plateau, giving fine views
over Blackmoor Vale. Shaftsbury became a place of pilgrimage and Royal
Patronage following King Alfred's foundation of an abbey on its
airy hilltop in AD888 and interment of Edward the Martyr's body
there in AD980.
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- The town has some excellent gray green, 18th
century stone houses, and the steep, cobbled Gold Hill is buttressed
on one side and terraced like an Italian hill town on the other.
- Local towns
and villages to visit
- Beaminster
- Dorchester
- Milton Abbas
- Shaftesbury
- Sherborne
- Weymouth
- Attractions
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- Angling
- Sea fishing at
Weymouth, Lulworth Cove, and Osmington Mills. Coarse fishing at
Radipole Lake, Weymouth. Trout fishing on the rivers Frome and
Trent.
Local
Accommodation
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