SHAFTESBURY
“The City of Dream” is how local-born writer Thomas Hardy described Shaftesbury, one of England’s most picturesque towns, which played a key role in two of his best-loved novels.
At 750 feet above sea level, Shaftesbury is also one of England’s highest towns, and its steep main street played a starring role in the celebrated 1970s Hovis bread advert, made by filmmaker Ridley Scott, where a young delivery boy puffs up the hill with his bread-laden bike, then freewheels down the other side.
Known as Sceptesberie in the Domesday Book,
