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Acton (/ ˈæktən /) is a town and area in west London, England, within the London Borough of Ealing. It is 6.1 miles (10 km) west of Charing Cross. At the 2011 census, its four wards, East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 62,480, a ten-year increase of 8,791 people. [ 2 ]
Acton is a suburban town, ancient parish and a group of neighbourhoods in Middlesex. Its name is derived from the Old English Actun ("Oak village") The village of Acton vanished in the nineteenth century, swamped and replaced by suburban growth. Acton remains an urban place. Its town centre is along the High Street.
Acton is now a suburb of West London about 5 miles from the centre, and well within the built-up area, but for the greater part of it's history, consisted of only a small cluster of houses around the medieval Church of St. Mary's, providing refreshment for travellers on the road from London to Oxford; together with a smaller farming community at...
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Acton is London's real melting pot. A touching plaque, to a former staff member at Acton Central. Incredibly well connected. Acton has seven stations; that's the most any area appears in a...
Guide to Acton, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
ACTON, a village, a parish and a subdistrict in Brentford, Middlesex. The village stands 8½ miles W of St. Paul's, London; is linked to the metropolis by an almost continuous line of houses, bisected by the Junction railway, connecting the Northwestern railway with the Southwestern; and it has a station on the railway and a post office ...
