Acton, Dorset

Acton
Acton
	Acton and Piles of Purbeck Stone
OS grid reference	SY988784
Civil parish	Langton Matravers;
District	Purbeck;
Shire county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SWANAGE
Postcode district	BH19
Dialling code	01929
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	South Dorset;
	List of places UK England Dorset

Acton is a hamlet in the parish of Langton Matravers, on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England.^[1]^[2] The hamlet of Acton was built as living quarters for the quarrymen working at the local quarries.

The hamlet was documented in the Domesday Book as Tacatone.

References

^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 195 Bournemouth & Purbeck (Wimborne Minster & Ringwood) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231418.

External links

Media related to Acton, Dorset at Wikimedia Commons
Acton in the Domesday Book

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[OSGaz50-1] "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[OS195-2] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 195 Bournemouth & Purbeck (Wimborne Minster & Ringwood) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231418.

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