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'Acton' is a village and civil parish 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. The parish also includes the hamlets of Cuckoo Tye and Newman's Green.
★ William Jennens - the Acton Miser
★ 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.
All Saints is the local church. The parish also includes the hamlets of Cuckoo Tye and Newman's Green.
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Notable former residents
★ William Jennens - the Acton Miser
★ 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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