Acton Scott
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Acton Scott is a village in the English county of Shropshire. It is known as Actune in the Domesday Book.
[edit] Attractions
Acton Scott Historic Working Farm is a living museum. Visitors take part in various workshops and the farm has a program taking in all aspects of a home farm throughout a year in the early 20th Century / 1900s.
Daily activities on site include herding the geese, ducks, turkeys, shorthorn or longhorn cattle, hand milking the cows, making butter (twice a day in the dairy), baking in the Bailifs cottage; all the normal farm activities. Activities done on site appears to include cider making, bodging, wheel and cart making, calving, rearing pigs, whip-lathe (polelathe) wood-turning, and brick making.
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