Acton

Acton may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Mount Acton

Australia

• Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
• Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
• Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton

Canada

• Acton, Ontario, a community
• Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario
• Acton, New Brunswick
• Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec

New Zealand

• Acton, New Zealand, a rural community

United Kingdom

• Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland
• Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
• Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)
• Acton, Dorset, a hamlet
• Acton, London, an area of west London
  • East Acton
  • North Acton
  • South Acton, London
  • West Acton
  • Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district
  • Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
• Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet
• Acton, Shropshire, a village
• Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet
• Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil parish
• Acton, Worcestershire
• Acton, Wrexham, a local government community

United States

• Acton, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Acton, California, an unincorporated census-designated place
• Acton, Florida, a former town
• Acton, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Acton, Indiana, a community
• Acton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Acton, Maine, a town
• Acton, Massachusetts, a town
• Acton Township, Meeker County, Minnesota
  • Acton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Acton, Montana, an unincorporated community
• Acton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Acton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota
• Acton Lake, Ohio
• Acton, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
• Acton, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Acton State Historic Site, Texas

Schools

• Acton School of Business, Austin, Texas
• Acton Technical College, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom
• Acton High School (Massachusetts), a former American high school, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Ark Acton Academy, in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England

People

• Acton (surname)
• Acton Bell, a pen name of Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet
• Eugenia de Acton, a pen name of Alethea Lewis (1749–1827), English novelist
• Acton Adams (1843–1924), British politician
• Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British barrister and politician

Other uses

• Acton Institute, an American think tank
• Acton Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund
• Acton station (disambiguation)
• Baron Acton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Acton Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
• Acton (Turrell), an artwork by James Turrell
• The Actons, a family in The Europeans, a Henry James novel
• Acton, a minor character in The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• Acton, an alternative spelling of aketon (gambeson)

See also

• Acton Castle, near Perranuthnoe, Cornwall
• Acton Green (disambiguation)
• Acton Park (disambiguation)
• Acton Vale (disambiguation)
• Acton Works, a London Underground maintenance facility

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