Shaftesbury through time
Roger Guttridge looks back over the town’s 1180 years of history, but mainly the last 200
Published in April ’20
Shaftesbury from Melbury Hill
THE SIGNS welcoming visitors to Shaftesbury inform them that they are entering a ‘Saxon hilltop town’. Succinct though it is, this phrase merely hints at the depth and breadth of history that is about to unfold before them – more than 1100 years of continuous and at times eventful history. At 705 feet above sea level, Shaftesbury is also the highest town
in Dorset by some margin, with …
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