Acton, Dorset

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Acton
Dorset
2010-04-04 Acton Dorset.jpg
Acton and Piles of Purbeck Stone
Location
Grid reference: SY988784
Location: 50°36’22"N, 2°1’1"W
Data
Post town: Swanage
Postcode: BH19
Dialling code: 01929
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
South Dorset

Acton is a hamlet in the parish of Langton Matravers, on the Isle of Purbeck, in of Dorset. The hamlet was built as living quarters for the quarrymen working at the local quarries.

The name 'Acton' usually means "oak village', but here it is reckoned to be derived from the Old English possibly for 'young lamb farm', the first element of which is reconstructed as tacca, not a known word but perhaps similar to the verb for "to tame".[1] The hamlet was documented in the Domesday Book as Tacatone.

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References

  1. Field, John (1980). Place-names of Great Britain and Ireland. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. p. 22. ISBN 0389201545. OCLC 6964610. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6964610.