Acton, Suffolk

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Acton is a village in the English county of Suffolk.According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the name is village by the oaks.The Domesday Book records the population of Acton in 1086 to be 83.

All Saints is the local church.

[edit] Notable Residents of Acton

The Acton Miser - 'The Great Jennens Case

Charles Drew walked to the nearby village of Long Melford and shot his father, tried for murder in 1740

Catherine Foster at the age of 17 she poisoned her husband by putting arsenic in his dumplings. She is believed to be the last woman to be hanged at Bury St Edmunds in 1847.

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