Acton, Northumberland

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Acton is a small hamlet in Northumberland, north-east England. Acton is usually Anglo-Saxon Old English for 'farmstead at the oak tree(s)'; here, though, it is 'Acca's farmstead'. Acca is an Anglo-Saxon settler's forename.

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