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The village has a school, a pub called "The Bull", a church, a post office and a village hall. The River Allen runs through the village. Every year the village holds a fete, which sometimes features a duck race.
The bow of Eros (properly Anteros) in Piccadilly Circus, London was originally positioned to point towards Wimborne St Giles, the country seat of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, in commemoration of his philanthropic works.
The church has a plaque in commemoration of robins who nested in the altar in 1887 and again in 1908.
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