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Gold Hill, Shaftesbury

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spoofed the Hovis advert in a sketch filmed in 1978, also filmed at Gold Hill. 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.
105:, one of the few buildings remaining in Shaftesbury from before the 18th century. Adjacent to the church is the former Priest's House (Sun and Moon Cottage), which is still part of the Gold Hill Museum building but now houses a shop. 314: 128:. 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. 402: 144: 324: 59: 227: 378: 222: 21: 102: 265: 177: 94:. The view looking down from the top of the street has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England." 153: 412: 397: 132: 51: 173: 407: 248: 287: 67: 319: 125: 113: 168:
bread, which has been voted Britain's favourite advertisement of all time. It was directed by
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Gold Hill has been used as a setting for film and television. It appears in the
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Each year the town hosts the Gold Hill Fair to raise money for local
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Andrew O'Hagan, "The future sounds rosier with Hovis",
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51°00′18″N 2°11′50″W / 51.005057°N 2.197191°W / 51.005057; -2.197191



cobbled
Shaftesbury
English
Dorset
St Peter
Church
buttressed
precinct
Shaftesbury Abbey
Alfred the Great
scheduled monument
charities
1967 film version
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd
"Boy on Bike" television advertisement
Hovis
Ridley Scott
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9
The Two Ronnies
Historic England
"Sun and Moon Cottage (1108731)"
National Heritage List for England
Abbey precinct wall on Gold Hill
Historic England

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