Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Acton. You may be able to find further references to Acton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Acton township Bartholomew
Acton parish and township Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Acton.

Place Type of entry Source
ASTON-JUXTA-MONDRUM a township Imperial
AUSTERTON a township Imperial
BADDINGTON a township Imperial
BRINDLEY a township Imperial
BURLAND a township Imperial
BURLEY-DAM a chapelry Imperial
CHOLMONDESTONE a township Imperial
COMBERMERE a township Imperial
COOL-PILATE a township Imperial
EDLESTON, or Edlaston a township Imperial
FADDILEY a township Imperial
HENHULL a township Imperial
HURLESTON a township Imperial
POOLE a township Imperial
STOKE a township Imperial
WORLESTON a township, with a r station Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Acton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant Nantwich 8

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Burland 0 2
Henhull 0 2
Edleston 0 2
Hurleston 0 2
Baddiley 2 2
Nantwich 29 5
Poole 0 2
Brindley 0 2
Sound 0 2
Stoke 0 2
Baddington 0 2
Worleston 0 2
Aston Juxta Mondrum 0 3
Faddiley 0 2
Willaston 0 2
Woodcott 0 2
Batherton 1 2
Alvaston 0 2
Stapeley 0 2
Austerson 0 2