File: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. jpg | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles ( 1621-1683 ).

Image: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. jpg | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles ( 1621-1683 ).

He was born on 22 July 1621, at the home of his maternal grandfather Sir Anthony Ashley in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset.

On 20 April 1661, three days before his coronation at Westminster Abbey, Charles II announced his coronation honours, and in those honours he created Cooper Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles.

For example, in August 1665, the king paid a surprise visit to Ashley at Wimborne St Giles, and, during a later visit, introduced Ashley to his illegitimate son James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.

Image: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. jpg | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles ( 1621-1683 ).

According to the provisions of his will, Shaftesbury's body was shipped back to Dorset on 13 February 1683, and he was buried at Wimborne St Giles on 26 February 1683.

He had already in 1631 succeeded his father as second Baronet of Rockbourne and been created Baron Ashley, of Wimborne St Giles in the County of Dorset, in 1661, and was made Baron Cooper, of Paulett in the County of Somerset, at the same time he was given the earldom.

The family seat is St Giles House, ( sometimes referred to as Ashley House ) near Wimborne St Giles in Dorset.

The estate at Wimborne St Giles came into the ownership of the Ashley family around the year 1460, through the marriage of Egidia Hamelyn and Robert Ashley, the 5th great grandfather of the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.

* Ivor Churchill Guest, 2nd Baron Wimborne ( 1873 – 1939 ) ( created Baron Ashby St Ledgers in 1910 ; created Viscount Wimborne in 1918 )

He died on 22 February 1914 at Canford Manor in Dorset and was succeeded by his son, Ivor Churchill Guest, 2nd Baron Wimborne, 1st Baron Ashby St Ledgers, who was later created Viscount Wimborne.

His body was brought back by sea to England and buried at Wimborne St Giles, the family seat in Dorsetshire.

Among these may be especially mentioned Michael Ainsworth, a native of Wimborne St Giles, the young man who was the recipient of the Letters addressed to a student at the university, and was maintained by Shaftesbury at University College, Oxford.

Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, PC ( 16 January 1873 – 14 June 1939 ), known as The Lord Ashby St Ledgers from 1910 to 1914 and as The Lord Wimborne from 1914 to 1918, was a British politician, and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising.

* Lester Piggott – Pinched ( 1957 ), St Paddy ( 1959 ), Casabianca ( 1963 ), Soft Angels ( 1965 ), Royal Palace ( 1966 ), Remand ( 1967 ), Sir Wimborne ( 1975 ), Dunbeath ( 1982 )

Image: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. jpg | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles ( 1621-1683 ).

Wimborne St Giles is a village in east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase seven miles north of Wimborne Minster and 12 miles north of Poole.

The village of 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.

Wimborne St Giles is a hundred and parish located in the wooded valley of the River Allen, near the royal hunting ground of Cranborne Chase.

The tithing of All Hallows is located in the village, as well as the eponymous parish of Wimborne St Giles.

The newly combined parishes of St Giles and All Hallows took the name of Wimborne St Giles.

While the parish was centralised in Wimborne St Giles, the churchyard at All Hallows continued to be used for burials up to the end of the 19th century, because there was no room for a burial ground at Wimborne St Giles church, which was restored in 1852.

He lives in the Dorset village of Lytchett Matravers, with his wife, Louise, and their twins and runs a taxi business in the nearby town of Wimborne Minster.

By the late 19th century however, the railways had arrived, with tracks first appearing within walking distance of the village at Wimborne and later with a route that went through the village.

" Wimborne was the location of the village of “ Warborne ”, and Charborough House was the location of the “ Welland House ” in Two on a Tower.

A tributary of the River Allen, formerly known as the Wimborne, snakes its way through the village.

Until 1964, the village was served by a railway station named Daggons Road, situated to the west of the village, and on a line connecting to Fordingbridge and Salisbury to the north, and Verwood and Wimborne to the south.

Holt is a village in east Dorset, England, two miles north of Wimborne Minster.

Pamphill is a village in south-east Dorset, England, just outside Wimborne Minster, four miles north of Poole.

Witchampton is a village in East Dorset, England, situated on the River Allen north of Wimborne Minster.

Woodlands is a village and civil parish in south east Dorset, England, five miles north of Wimborne Minster.

Canford School is a coeducational independent school for both day and boarding pupils, in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in South West England.

Holt Heath is a common situated four miles north-east of Wimborne Minster in east Dorset, southern England, close to the village of Holt.

This circuitous route was promoted in the 19th century by the Wimborne solicitor Charles Castleman, and was chosen because of the need to run through populated areas at a time when Bournemouth was a small village.

The tiny village is near to the historic town of Wimborne Minster, next to the Blandford Road to the north west.

Birch Close is a village in Dorset ( southern England ) near to Wimborne Minster.

Every year Wimborne hosts the longest fireworks display in Dorset, as part of its Guy Fawkes celebrations ; a county record that it has held for the last seven years.

Wimborne has many pubs.

Poole Stadium ( also known as Wimborne Road Stadium ), has been the Pirates home track since the club was created in 1948.

It has its confluence with the River Stour in Wimborne Minster.

The path has two alternative sections which can be used to form circular walks: one to the south west of Wimborne, and the other to the south west of Hurn Airport.