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	Shaftesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Abbey was in the middle ages the central focus of the town.
		In 1539 the last Abbess of Shaftesbury, Elizabeth Zouche signed a deed of surrender and the abbey was demolished, and its lands sold, leading to a temporary decline in the town.
		Shaftesbury was a parliamentary constituency returning two members from 1296 to the Reform Act of 1832, when it was reduced to one, and in 1884 the separate constituency was abolished.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shaftesbury.html (720 words)

	Shaftesbury, Dorset, England
		Shaftesbury's first recorded appearance as a town is in a document known as the 'Burgal Hideage'.
		Shaftesbury and the surrounding district were represented in Parliament by two members from 1296 until 1832, then with the Great Reform Bill, by only one until 1884, when it merged with the County Constituency.
		Shaftesbury avoided involvement in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, but along with many other towns had to display dismembered remains of some of the rebels as a grim warning to anyone who may have been involved.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/place/S060.htm (1320 words)

	Shaftesbury Holidays - Shaftesbury Tourist Information
		Shaftesbury's most famous view is without doubt that of the cobbled street of Gold Hill, known to millions as the 'Hovis' hill from the TV adverts in the 1980s.
		Shaftesbury Town Museum, which explains the town's history over the centuries, is at the top of Gold Hill, tucked away in one of the historic cottages.
		Shaftesbury is an ideal holiday destination for anyone looking to get away from the hustle and bustle of modern life and explore the peace and tranquillity of the rural North Dorset countryside.
	www.visit-dorset.org.uk /shaftesbury-dorset.shtml (576 words)

	SHAFTESBURY ABBEY
		Alfred and his daughter Ethelgiva founded the Shaftesbury Abbey, a Benedictine community for women, in 888, which was a spur to the growing importance of the town.
		From AD 888 to 1539 the Abbey was one of the most important in the country, maintaining links with the Royal House of the day.
		Thus Elizabeth Zouche, Abbess of Shaftesbury, the yearly income of which house was taxed at £ 1166, received £ 133 a year and all her nuns to the number of fifty-five were pensioned.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Documents/shaftesbury_abbey.htm (593 words)

	Edward the Martyr - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There the relics were received by the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey and were buried with full royal honors on the north side of the altar.
		On the way from Wareham to Shaftesbury, a further miracle had taken place; two crippled men were brought close to the bier, and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, whereupon the cripples were immediately restored to full health.
		Shaftesbury Abbey was rededicated to the Mother of God and St. Edward.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Edward_the_Martyr (1150 words)

	Shaftesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Shaftesbury's recorded history dates from Anglo-Saxon times, it may have been the Celtic Caer Palladur.
		Sir Thomas Arundel of Wardour purchased the abbey and much of the town in 1540, but when he was later exiled for treason his lands were forfeit, and the lands passed to Pembroke then Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and finally to the Grosvenors.
		The railways, however, bypassed Shaftesbury, and this infuenced the subsequent pattern of its growth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaftesbury (1089 words)

	Publications
		This edition of the pre-Conquest charters of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, comprises 39 documents pertaining to St Augustine's, ranging in date from the seventh century to the eleventh, with a further 14 documents pertaining to Minster-in-Thanet (of the seventh and eighth centuries).
		The abbey prospered in the tenth century under the patronage of the West Saxon nobility, and became one of the wealthiest nunneries in the country.
		This edition of the pre-Conquest charters of Shaftesbury abbey comprises the texts of 30 documents, including 1 from the eighth century, 6 from the ninth century, 21 from the tenth century, and 2 from the eleventh century.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /chartwww/Publications.html (434 words)

	Woolley Tales Bradford on Avon Page
		In the 14th century Shaftesbury Abbey built the tithe barn, to the rear of Barton Farm, for the storage of tithes due to the Abbey.
		Barton Farm itself is referred to as the 'manor house' in the 16th century and it is likely that it was the centre of operations for the Abbey's farming and the tenants in their manor from an early date.
		Barton Bridge was built in the 14th century to connect the Barton Farm complex with its lands to the north of the river.
	homepages.tesco.net /~tim.twyford/BradfordonAvon.htm (1860 words)

	Shaftesbury, Dorset Community Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Saxon abbess Leofgifu was succeeded by the Norman Abbess Eulalia and the Norman re-building of the Abbey commenced.
		Shaftesbury began to be represented by two MP’s and was becoming an important market town; the present street pattern formed as it expanded east of the Abbey and numerous churches and chapels were built.
		Shaftesbury had become a ‘pocket borough’ again, and the elections of 1818, 1820 and 1821 were uncontested, as Lord Grosvenor’s nominees were automatically elected.
	www.shaftesburydorset.com /history/lhistory.php (3346 words)

	A Brief History of Shaftesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first part of the name Shaftesbury is believed to be derived from the Saxon word sceapt, which meant point.
		In 978 the young Saxon king Edward, known as Edward the Martyr was murdered and in 979 he was buried in Shaftesbury Abbey.
		By the beginning of the 20th century the population of Shaftesbury was about 1,800> It grew rapidly in the subsequent decades.
	www.localhistories.org /shaftesbury.html (522 words)

	Shaftesbury Hotels \| accommodation - hotels in Shaftesbury Dorset Southern England
		From Shaftesbury you can explore the beautiful scenery of the South Downs, the museums, castles, historic houses and ancient monuments of the area, and the market towns and villages of the south of England.
		Shaftesbury is one of the oldest and highest towns in England and dominates the surrounding countryside.
		Medieval colours reflect the interior of the original Abbey church, and the museum houses a collection of stonework, medieval floor tiles illustrations from ancient manuscripts.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /shaftsburyhotels.html (335 words)

	Shaftesbury, Dorset
		Shaftesbury was known as Shaston in his novels, and Jude the Obscure was set here.
		The abbey was destroyed in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
		Whilst Shaftesbury sits at 600 feet above sea level, on the top of the hill, there are 2 areas known collectively by the county planners as "the settlements at the foot of the slopes" - Enmore Green, and St James.
	www.southwilts.com /site/Shaftesburycc/Shaftesbury.htm (1037 words)

	Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
		After Edward the Martyr was murdered at Corfe Castle in 979 and the remains of the canonized king were brought to the abbey to be buried, the town became a popular place of pilgrimage with almost a dozen churches.
		By the 15th century some 140 nuns were living in the abbey, which had become so prosperous that it was popularly maintained that if the abbess of Shaftesbury were to marry the abbot of Glastonbury, the offspring would be wealthier than those of the royal family.
		Today only the foundation walls are left as a reminder of the abbey's existence, while in the Abbey Ruins Museum there is a model of the building as it once was, as well as numerous finds from the Middle Ages.
	www.planetware.com /united-kingdom/shaftesbury-gb-wlt-sh.htm (252 words)

	Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Community Information
		When the Domesday Book was compiled (1086) the estate was still owned by Shaftesbury Abbey and would have consisted of several modern villages and parishes besides the modern parish of Bradford.
		This was a fairly prosperous community and was one of only ten places in the county to have burgesses, who might be supposed to be town dwellers, although many were also farmers, and who certainly paid their share of the borough dues.
		On the land directly farmed by the Abbey there were 9 serfs (landless men who worked full-time for the lord of the manor) and 18 coliberts (who were similar to bordars).
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getcom.php?id=26 (4888 words)

	Abbey Category List
		But it was with the Norman Invasion that many more abbeys were created and, by the mid-14th century there were some 1,000 houses of varying denominations.
		A few continued in their role as cathedrals, and about one hundred of the monastic churches remained in use after the monks had gone, and the conventual buildings had been demolished.
		From the great Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to the scant remains set amongst the wild and beautiful flower garden at Shaftesbury in Dorset, each abbey has the unique ability to induce some kind of emotion to the visitor.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /alpha_lists/abbeylist.htm (277 words)

	Shaftesbury (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		:''This article is about the town in England, for the town in the United States see Shaftsbury, Vermont.'' Shaftesbury is a town in North Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury.
		On February 20th 981 the relics of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham and received with great ceremony, thereafter creating Shaftesbury into a Major site of pilgrimage for mircales of healing.
		Thomas Hardy wrote: :''"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal Abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals...
	shaftesbury.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1027 words)

	Hotels near Shaftesbury Abbey Museum & Garden
		The Abbey at Shaftesbury was part of a nunnery founded by King Alfred in 888.
		It became one of the wealthiest in the country but was destroyed during the Dissolution in 1539.
		The excavated ruins show the foundations of the abbey church.
	www.activereservations.com /hotel/en/hotels-near-attractions/261.html (248 words)

	Shaftesbury Abbey Museum and Garden - Dorset For You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Once the most important Benedictine community for women in the country and the supposed resting place of the murdered boy king Edward the Martyr.
		The excavated foundations of the abbey church lie within a walled garden and the Anglo-Saxon herb garden and medieval orchard are not to be missed.
		Today visitors can see the abbey rebuilt through a virtual tour of the abbey church.
	www.dorsetforyou.com /index.jsp?articleid=323102 (104 words)

	ShaftesburyJames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Situated at the very end of St James' Street and where town meets not only country but also the wild heath it provides water for travellers and their horses, and a spartan shelter for the solitary homeless.
		In the church can be traced the effects of the renewed liturgical devotion of the last century, while the observant eye can trace the links between the original church of 1138 and the present building of 1866.
		Shaftesbury St James' is a fascinating church not only in itself but also in its context as one of the few local churches to have survived the dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey in 1539.
	www.openchurchestrust.org.uk /ShaftesburyJames.htm (198 words)

	Beckfordiana website - Fonthill
		Now a mere fragment, the Abbey lives on in critical and popular memory through numerous engravings, drawings, sketches and paintings, as well as through the wide array of guidebooks which were published, as a result of popular demand, in the early decades of the 19th century.
		A different guidebook, John Rutter's A Description to Fonthill Abbey (Shaftesbury 1822, xii+74 pages), is available in facsimile if you click here.
		Goldsmith, "Fonthill Abbey", from The Natural and Artificial Wonders of the United Kingdom: With Engravings, in three volumes (1825) may be found here.
	beckford.c18.net /wbfonthill.html (530 words)

	Shaftesbury Estate Agents Jackson-Stops & Staff
		The Shaftesbury office reinforces the link between the London offices and those throughout the South of England from Kent to Truro.
		The Jackson-Stops and Staff office is prominently located in the centre of Shaftesbury opposite the Grosvenor Hotel.
		Founded 1100 years ago as the home of King Alfred's Benedictine Abbey, Shaftesbury is an historic market town which is rapidly attracting a wide variety of high quality and niche retailers.
	www.jackson-stops.co.uk /offices/shaftesbury.html (261 words)

	Dorsetshire Abbeys & Minsters
		This is the index page for the articles on Abbeys and Minsters.
		Founded in about 1000 as Abodesbury by the priest Bertulfus, with the ancient abbey built by Orc of the house of Canute.
		The Founder granted to the Abbot and Monks a power to chuse whom they would for their Patron; whereupon they chose King Henry III and Eleanor his Queen their patrons, and they accordingly took upon them the protection of this Abbey A.D.1272.
	www.dorsetshire.com /abbeys/abbeys.html (259 words)

	Shaftesbury Abbey Museum and Garden - Rural Dorset
		Shaftesbury Abbey Museum and Garden - Rural Dorset
		It was destined to become the wealthiest in the country and the model for all other Royal nunneries.
		The foundations of the Abbey church and the massive ramparts on Gold Hill are all that remain of the original building.
	www.ruraldorset.com /days/details.asp?FKID=3&ID=50 (78 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He also founded Shaftesbury Abbey, with his daughter as the first Abbess.
		Later, when Aethelthred took the throne, he gave a number of estates to Shaftesbury Abbey, where Edward was buried.
		Finally, in 1001 AP, Edward became a saint and, with worries of invasion of Shaftesbury by the Danes, he gave the Abbey the Hundred of Bradford with its own abbey as a place of refuge for the nuns.
	www.freshford.com /saxonbook1.htm (287 words)

	Bradford-on-Avon Attractions - Southern England - UK Attraction
		This narrow bridge was built by Shaftesbury Abbey in the 14th century....
		Barton Farm was once a grange of Shaftesbury Abbey.
		The Granary was originally part of Shaftesbury Abbey’s grange at Barton Farm....
	www.ukattraction.com /southern-england/bradford-on-avon.html (295 words)

	Shaftesbury : UK category on LimeySearch.co.uk
		Shaftesbury Abbey - From AD 888 to 1539 Shaftesbury Abbey was one of the most important in the country.
		Shaftesbury Comprehensive - A thriving voluntary controlled upper school for 13-18 year olds with some boarding places.
		The Knoll - Bed and Breakfast - Bleke St - Shaftesbury Dorset - Bed and Breakfast in a victorian house in Shaftesbury.
	www.limeysearch.co.uk /England/Dorset/Shaftesbury (774 words)

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