Acton
Acton is a village in Shropshire, England, south of Bishop's Castle. Acton has about 1,480 residents.Photo: George Wolfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 1,480 residents
- Description: village in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Acton, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bury Ditches and Church of St John the Baptist.
Bury Ditches
Archaeological site
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bury Ditches is a British Iron Age hill fort between Clun and Bishop's Castle in the Shropshire Hills of central England.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2 miles north of Acton.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Michael and All Angels is situated 2½ miles east of Acton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colebatch and Cefn Einion.
Colebatch
Village
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colebatch is a small village and civil parish in southwest Shropshire, England. The population of the Civil Parish as at the 2011 census was 210. The village lies on the A488, one mile south of Bishop's Castle, on the road to Clun.
Cefn Einion
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cefn Einion is a dispersed hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England. It is located two miles southwest of the village of Colebatch, and lies between the small villages of Bryn and Mainstone. Cefn Einion is situated 2 miles west of Acton.
Bicton
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bicton is a hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England, one mile north of Clun. The short River Unk passes through the hamlet. In previous centuries it was a township in the Clun division of the hundred of Clun. Bicton is situated 2 miles southwest of Acton.
Acton
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Lydbury North, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.45826° or 52° 27′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.01149° or 3° 0′ 41″ westPopulation
1,480Elevation
833 feet (254 metres)Open location code
9C4RFX5Q+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 2295498455OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2657696Wikidata ID
Q3811339
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Acton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Acton”
- Dutch: “Acton”
- French: “Acton”
- Irish: “Acton”
- Persian: “اکتن، شروپشر”
- Polish: “Acton”
- Swedish: “Acton, Shropshire”
- Swedish: “Acton”
- Urdu: “ایکٹن، شروپشائر”
- Welsh: “Acton, Swydd Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Acton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Acton Bank and Brockton Methodist Church.
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