Recreational enterprises include commercial shooting, a trout farm, and fly fishing on the River Allen.

The village is largely agricultural, with residents generally commuting to nearby cities and towns for employment.

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.

Ownership of the estate encompassing the present-day St Giles House has not changed hands through purchase since the Norman Conquest.

Incorporating late medieval work in the basement and cellars, the continued construction of the main body of St Giles House was initiated in 1651.

When the Earl of Shaftesbury built a new country house close to St Giles, the writing was on the wall for All Hallows.

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.