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