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	parish and town with railway station	Bartholomew

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

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.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	1

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
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