Acton
Acton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. The parish also includes the hamlets of Cuckoo Tye and Newman's Green. It is located three miles North East of Sudbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,850 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Acton, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints Church, Acton and Melford Hall.
All Saints Church, Acton
Church
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All Saints Church is located in the village of Acton near Sudbury. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Sudbury, part of the archdeaconry of Ipswich, and the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
Melford Hall
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Melford Hall is a stately home in the village of Long Melford, Suffolk, England. Since 1786 it has been the seat of the Parker Baronets and is still lived in by the Hyde Parker family. Melford Hall is situated 2 miles northwest of Acton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Waldingfield and Chilton.
Great Waldingfield
Village
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Great Waldingfield is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England about two miles north-east of Sudbury and two miles south-west of its sister village, Little Waldingfield.
Chilton
Hamlet
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Chilton is a civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Sudbury, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 367.
Upsher Green
Hamlet
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Great Waldingfield is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England about two miles north-east of Sudbury and two miles south-west of its sister village, Little Waldingfield. Upsher Green is situated 1½ miles southeast of Acton.
Acton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Acton, Babergh District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.07011° or 52° 4′ 12″ northLongitude
0.76207° or 0° 45′ 44″ eastPopulation
1,850Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)Open location code
9F423QC6+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 289293714OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592631Wikidata ID
Q261791
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Acton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Acton (Suffolk)”
- Basque: “Acton”
- Cebuano: “Acton (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Acton”
- Chinese: “Acton”
- Dutch: “Acton”
- French: “Acton”
- German: “Acton”
- Irish: “Acton”
- Italian: “Acton”
- Ladin: “Acton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Acton (Suffolk)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Acantūn on Sūþfolce”
- Persian: “اکتون، سافک”
- Polish: “Acton”
- Russian: “Актон”
- Spanish: “Acton”
- Swedish: “Acton, Suffolk”
- Turkish: “Acton, Suffolk”
- Urdu: “ایکٹن، سافک”
- “Acton”
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