Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

The historical walled town originally occupied an area of around 97, 000 square metres, which now comprises the town centre, bordered by Albert Road to the west, the Marine Highway to the south, Shaftesbury Park to the north and Joymount Presbyterian Church grounds to the east.

The main municipal playing fields are at Tredegar Park, Coronation Park, Glebelands, Pillgwenlly sports ground, Kimberley Park, Shaftesbury Park and Caerleon Broadway.

South of Bellingham, the small river Spring Brook joins the Ravensbourne after flowing only about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) from the east through Plaistow and Downham ; it crosses the borough boundary from Bromley to Lewisham and narrow parkland named Shaftesbury Park Recreation Ground and Downham Playing Fields follow it along its short course.

Wynyard Park was sold by the 9th Marquess of Londonderry in 1987, who afterwars lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset.

Stations opened on the line at Shaftesbury Road ( Ravenscourt Park from 1888 ) and Shepherds Bush on 1 May 1874.

* The station is a meeting point for walking clubs heading east to the Rosedale Ravine via a staircase from Shaftesbury Avenue down to David A. Balfour Park.

Ravenscourt Park station was opened as Shaftesbury Road by the L & SWR on 1 April 1873.

The constituency comprises the electoral divisions of Allt-yr-yn, Bettws, Caerleon, Gaer, Graig, Malpas, Marshfield, Pillgwenlly, Rogerstone, Shaftesbury, Stow Hill and Tredegar Park in the city of Newport.

* Balham, Fairfield, Latchmere, Northcote, Queenstown, St Mary ’ s Park, Shaftesbury.

Philosopher's Tower on the Shaftesbury Estate

At this time, he built a folly structure on the Shaftesbury Estate, known as the Philosopher's Tower.

West Orchard is a small village in the rural Blackmore Vale area of north Dorset, England, adjacent to East Orchard, from which it is separated by a stream, and situated half way between Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton.

The subsequent local enquiries were bitterly contested with the SDLP favouring the commission's original proposals which would add an area where Sinn Féin had little support ( and aside from the Shaftesbury ward, had not contested in council elections ), while Sinn Féin argued instead for adding the mostly republican Twinbrook and Poleglass estates ( where they were outpolling the SDLP in council elections by a margin of 3 to 1 ).

Thus in a short time Charles's own cabinet, the Cabal Ministry, went over to the " Dutch " peace party ; Lord Shaftesbury, much shocked by the revelation, even beginning to consider driving out the troublesome House of Stuart entirely and inducing his secretary, John Locke, to further develop the legal concepts which would later be the basis of the Two Treatises of Government, which justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

He took an active part in the controversy over the Exclusion Bill, and claimed to be the author of the whole of the pamphlet " No Protestant Plot " ( 1681 ), parts of which are usually ascribed to Shaftesbury.

He immediately petitioned the Old Bailey on a writ of habeas corpus, but the Old Bailey said it did not have jurisdiction over prisoners in the Tower of London, so Shaftesbury had to wait for the next session of the Court of King's Bench.

The street is home to over 30 restaurants and bars north of Shaftesbury Avenue.

After an absence of over twelve months, Ashley returned to England, and soon succeeded his father as Earl of Shaftesbury.

The group rehearsed over Dougie Knight's bicycle shop in Shaftesbury Square, Belfast in preparation for their debut at the Maritime.

The major beneficiaries of the Trust's fundraising over the last few years have been the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington ; the PACE Centre at Philip Green House in Buckinghamshire ; Philip Green Memorial School in Dorset ; Churchtown in Cornwall ; the Grand Shaftesbury Run ; Oakleigh School in Barnet and Richard House Children's Hospice in London's East End.

Brian appeared as part of Team Ant on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, and took over from Michael Ball in the musical Hairspray playing the role of Edna Turnblad at London's Shaftesbury Theatre.

In 1844, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury formed the Ragged School Union and over the next eight years over 200 free schools for poor children were established in Britain.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

The piece was a hit for Courtneidge and her father, playing to full houses at the Shaftesbury Theatre until Britain and Germany went to war in August 1914 ; anti-German sentiment brought the run to an abrupt halt.

It returned to the West End in July 2011 for a 10-week run at the Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, with Williams and McCabe reprising their roles.

Cobden and John Bright lost their seats, and Lord Shaftesbury wrote of the election:

; 1840: Lord Shaftesbury presents a paper to British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston calling for the ' recall of the Jews to their ancient land '.

Through the brief 12th Session of early 1674, Shaftesbury and his friends, flexing their new muscles, steered a slew of provocative bills in the House of Lords, e. g. expelling Catholics from London, forcing an oath that renounced the Pope, requiring royal family members to get parliamentary consent on marriage and how to raise their children.

On the way from Wareham to Shaftesbury, a miracle had taken place: when two crippled men were brought close to the bier and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, the cripples were immediately restored to full health.

At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was said that " if the abbess of Shaftesbury and the abbot of Glastonbury Abbey had been able to wed, their son would have been richer than the King of England " because of the lands which it had been bequeathed.

In 1682, after the Tories had gained the ability to pack London juries with their supporters, Shaftesbury, fearing a second prosecution, fled the country.

But the appointment of Lord Seymour made their work very difficult, despite the support of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

In fact West's contacts with the Monmouth cabal, and knowledge of their intentions, were in part quite indirect ; Thomas Walcott and Robert Ferguson had accompanied Shaftesbury to the Netherlands, in his self-imposed exile of November 1682.

Led informally by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.

Led informally by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.

The Catholics were almost certain to be blamed for the murder, with calamitous consequences ; while neither Shaftesbury nor his colleagues, whatever their faults, were capable of murdering an innocent man whom they knew on the mere speculation that it would bring them some benefit.

Proposing a new British style of architecture, Shaftesbury censured Wren's cathedral, his taste and his long-standing control of royal works.

Shaftesbury took great pains in the elaboration of his style, and he succeeded so far as to make his meaning transparent.

For Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just is the sensory version of moral goodness.

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

The influential author Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury is also usually categorized as a deist.

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

* 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

* 1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( b. 1671 )

* 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( d. 1683 )

In 1666, he met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection.

Locke coordinated the advice of several physicians and was probably instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an operation ( then life-threatening itself ) to remove the cyst.

Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life.

Shaftesbury, as a founder of the Whig movement, exerted great influence on Locke's political ideas.

Locke became involved in politics when Shaftesbury became Lord Chancellor in 1672.

In London he also starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye ’ s novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

From October 2007 to January 2008, he played the role of Wilbur Turnblad in the London production of Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

" The eighteenth-century philosophers Shaftesbury and Hutcheson " were obviously inspired in part by Cumberland.

Noting its significance, Lord Shaftesbury said, " It is a new thing and a very serious thing to see the Prime Minister on the stump.

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

* 1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1, 998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

Xenophon's standing as a political philosopher has been defended in recent times by Leo Strauss, who devoted a considerable part of his philosophic analysis to the works of Xenophon, returning to the high judgment of Xenophon as a thinker expressed by Shaftesbury, Winckelmann, Machiavelli, and John Adams.

* The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury is observed in a reenactment.

* July 22 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician ( d. 1683 )

* February 26 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )