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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 | parish and town with railway station | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Acton.
Place | Type of entry | Source | South Acton | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | Steyne | hamlet | Bartholomew | STEYNE | a hamlet | Imperial |
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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. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 1 |
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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 |
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South Acton | 0 | 1 |
Elm Grove | 0 | 2 |
Acton Green | 0 | 1 |
Gunnersbury | 0 | 2 |
Ealing | 1 | 2 |
Turnham Green | 0 | 2 |
Old Brentford | 0 | 1 |
South Ealing | 0 | 1 |
Hanger Lane | 0 | 2 |
Castlebear Hill | 0 | 2 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 0 | 2 |
Kew | 2 | 2 |
Chiswick | 3 | 2 |
West Twyford | 0 | 2 |
Brent | 0 | 2 |
Shepherds Bush | 0 | 2 |
Brentford | 15 | 2 |
Holsdon Green | 0 | 2 |
Brentford End | 0 | 1 |
Alperton | 0 | 2 |