Ackton

Ackton
Ackton Ackton shown within West Yorkshire
Civil parish	Featherstone
District	Wakefield
Shire county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PONTEFRACT
Postcode district	WF7
Dialling code	01977
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Hemsworth
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°41′31″N 1°22′34″W / 53.692058°N 1.376018°W / 53.692058; -1.376018

Ackton is a hamlet near Pontefract in the English county of West Yorkshire.

The name "Ackton" means "oak-tree farmstead". It is formed from the Old Scandinavian word eik ("oak-tree") and the Old English word tūn ("farmstead, village, enclosure"). The first element of the name indicates the presence of settlers from Scandinavia in Ackton whose dialect influenced the name of the settlement. Ackton appeared as Aitone [sic] in the Domesday Book of 1086. The village is mentioned again, this time more correctly, circa 1166 as Aicton.

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Ackton in the Domesday Book

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