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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