Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Acatone 1086 DB

• Aketon 1287 Court 1400 Pat

• Hakedon c.1298 Chol

• Actune 1086 DB

• Actun, Actun iuxta Wichum Malbanum c.1284 CASNSii l13 AddCh

• Acton c.1130 Cott.Faust.B.viii 1479 Ch H3(1331),1253

• Acton iuxta Wycum Malbanum 1295 ChancW

• Acton Edlaston 1353 BPR

• Acton Hurdeleston 1390 ChRR

• Acton Mondrem 1421 Orm2iii420

• Aghton 1394 Sheaf 17 NotCestr 1724

• Acton alias Aighton, Aighton 1612 Sheaf

• Aughton 1719 ib

• Church Acton 1671 AddCh

• Parva Acton 1531 Chol

• Little Acton 1671 AddCh, 1677, 1698 Chol, 1831 Bry

Etymology

'Oak farm', v. āc (gen .pl . āca ), tūn . The prefix Church - denotes the parish church, v. cirice , distinguishing the main hamlet from Parva Acton 1531Chol , Little Acton 1671AddCh , 1677, 1698Chol , 1831 Bry, (v. lȳtel ), a detached part of Dodcott cum Wilkesley 92supra , which probably represents the carucate of land in the vill of Acton granted to Combermere abbey c.1130 (Cott . Faust. B. viii 124–6). For -Mondrem cf. Aston iuxta Mondrum 128infra . The other related places are Nantwich 30supra , Edleston and Hurleston 140, 146infra .