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The road leading to North Acton, it follows the line of a footpath through fields. The name Acton (from the Old English Actun) was first found in documents of the late 12thCentury and means an enclosure or farm surrounded by oaks or possibly a farm or yard where oak timber was worked. Acorns have the same root in Old English. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was merely an anonymous part of the Manor of Fulham but within a 100 years it was featured as Acton in documebts of 1181, a slight change as Acetone in 1211, and Chirche Acton and Church Acton in 1347 and 1551, respectively. North Acton itself didn’t come into existence until the 20thCentury with the expansion of residential development.
