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Acton Beauchamp

Coordinates: 52°08′53″N 2°28′30″W / 52.148°N 2.475°W / 52.148; -2.475
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Acton Beauchamp
Acton Beauchamp Church and Church House
Acton Beauchamp is located in Herefordshire
Acton Beauchamp
Acton Beauchamp
Location within Herefordshire
Population229 (2011 Census)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWORCESTER
Postcode districtWR6
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Herefordshire
52°08′53″N 2°28′30″W / 52.148°N 2.475°W / 52.148; -2.475

52°08′53″N 2°28′30″W / 52.148°N 2.475°W / 52.148; -2.475

Acton Beauchamp (/ˈæktən ˈbəm/) is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and is approximately 12 miles (19 km) north-east from the city and county town of Hereford and 3 miles (5 km) south-east from the market town of Bromyard.

The Acton Beauchamp name derives from the Beauchamp family which owned the parish.[citation needed] Despite being in Herefordshire, Acton Beauchamp was in the upper division of Worcestershire Doddingtree Hundred.[when?][1] Parish population is scattered among farms, cottages and other housing over the hillsides, and was 229 at the 2011 census.[citation needed] The village has a spring which is intermittent.

The parish church, dedicated to Saint Giles, is built in Norman style, partly rebuilt in 1819. It contains an Anglo Saxon carved stone door lintel reused in the wall of the Norman church tower; The carving depicts a bird, a lion and what is possibly a goat.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Worcestershire Family History Guidebook, Vanessa Morgan, 2011, p20 The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire.