Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Acton

Acton, township, Featherstone par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3½ miles W. of Pontefract, 968 ac., pop. 706.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Featherstone Tn/AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Ackton

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