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St Giles House is located at Wimborne St Giles in East Dorset in England, just south of Cranborne Chase. It is the ancestral seat of the Ashley-Cooper family, which is headed by the Earl of Shaftesbury. The estate covers over 5,500 acres (22 km 2). [1]
Wimborne St Giles in East Dorset is the home base and centre of business of the Ashley-Cooper family. [9] Built in 1651, the family seat of St Giles House had fallen into disrepair as it had been unoccupied for approximately 60 years.
The village of St Giles was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] Wimborne St Giles was established in 1733, when the St Giles and All Hallows parishes were merged at the request of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. In 2001 the population was 366, served by the village hall, post office, parish church, and a primary school.
Construction on St Giles House began in 1651, by Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, later to become 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. The manor house is built on top of the ruins of the previous estate home. This large house and surrounding grounds include 400 acres (1.6 km 2 ), along with a seven-acre lake and a 1,000 yards (900 m) avenue of trees.
The first rector of Wimborne St Giles, John de Fissa, was recorded in 1207 and a church is recorded on the site in 1291. This medieval parish church was rebuilt in the 1620s under patronage from Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet of Wimborne St Giles. Ashley died in 1628 and was buried in a spectacular tomb in the church, which still survives to ...
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt (22 May 1938 – c. 5 November 2004), styled Lord Ashley between 1947 and 1961, and Earl of Shaftesbury from 1961 until his death, was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England.
As a personal response to his horror, he opened a ragged school in the St Giles rookery, in a hayloft in Streatham Street. A year later in 1844, a group of London ragged schools banded together to form the Ragged School Union. Lord Ashley, who later inherited the title of Lord Shaftesbury became its president and thus got to know Williams. [3]
St Giles is an area in London, ... The southern area of the parish, around present day Shaftesbury Avenue, was a wasteland named Cock and Pye Fields.