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Shaftesbury

town and civil parish in Dorset, England
Place town Q631444

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish[4]
Official website
shaftesburytown.co.uk[9]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.007°, -2.198°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dorset[2]

Population and size

Population
3.3k (1.8k–9.2k, n=11)[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Codes

Local dialing code
01747[6]
Postal code
SP7[5]
More facts +4
Authority
Shaftesbury Town Council[8]
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21][22]
Historic county
Dorset[23]
OS grid reference
ST861228[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Shaftesbury en Sceptesberie en Shaftesbury, Dorset en Shaston ar شافتسبري el Σάφτεσμπουρι fa شافتسبوری he שאפטסבורי ja シャフツベリー ja シャフテスブリー ko 샤프츠버리 ru Шафтесбери zh 沙夫茨伯里 zh-hans 萨夫特斯布利 zh-hant 薩夫特斯布利
🔖 Identifiers · 36
VIAF cluster ID
135037451
Library of Congress authority ID
n96075880
GND ID
4423243-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
High Street, Shaftesbury - geograph.org.uk - 1440129.jpg ↗
Alvin ID
alvin-place:3636
ArchINFORM location ID
4026
BBC News topic ID
cp29jzed1l9t
BBC Things ID
2b4b552b-55f3-4bef-9929-e413cd32bab4
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Dorset/Shaftesbury/
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
a0a91980-a5da-47d4-8114-882418cafe1b
FactGrid item ID
list of the Beatles' live performances
Freebase ID
/m/01dm2j
Show all 36 identifiers +24
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2607492
GSS code (2011)
E04003434
GeoNames ID
2638157, 7294988
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Shaftesbury
KEPN ID
Dorset/Shaftesbury
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/7326FE1A-51DE-4B39-93B3-29922BB6B1DD
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007531120705171
OpenDomesday settlement ID
ST8622/shaftesbury
OpenStreetMap node ID
21583226
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2603931
SBN place ID
UBOL003817
SNARC ID
Fritz Künkel
Survey of English Place-Names ID
532852a9b47fc4099d002a4a, 532852f9b47fc4099d002b8b
TOID
7000000000014558, 4000000074551489
Topic's main category
Category:Shaftesbury
UN/LOCODE
GBSHB
Vision of Britain place ID
286
Vision of Britain unit ID
10458298
WOEID
34420
Wellcome Collection concept ID
dsg6h46y
Who's on First ID
101852347
Wikishire article ID
Shaftesbury
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJppDdCTrqFmBVk9M7jjYP
Yale LUX ID
place/87d6a3eb-47e8-49be-8f01-11de7cab51a2

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
town, civil parish
Contained subdivisions 1
Shaftesbury Abbey
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
FactGrid item ID 1
list of the Beatles' live performances
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dorset
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
Topic's main category 1
Category:Shaftesbury
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Shaftesbury
← Place served by transport hub 1
Compton Abbas Airfield
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Summary

Shaftesbury is a town[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved . neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . dorsetforyou.com. dorsetforyou.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Dorset
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.0066, 'lon': -2.198}
    Population → {'amount': '+6680'}, {'amount': '+6180'}, {'amount': '+3940'} +8
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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