Gold Hill, Shaftesbury

Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset.

[2] The cobbled street runs beside buttressed walls of the precinct, which are the grounds surrounding ancient Shaftesbury Abbey, built by King Alfred the Great.

[3] Their origins are not known, but are presumed to have been built in the 1360s, when the abbess or other authority was given royal permission to build town defences.

[6][7] It was directed by Ridley Scott, and includes the main theme from the slow movement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.

They recreated the advert in detail, except that the delivery boy is now in middle age, still delivering to the top of the hill and speaks in a northern accent.

Gold Hill with buttressed precinct wall of Shaftesbury Abbey to the right
Viewed from the bottom
Hovis bread monument at Gold Hill