Municipal Borough of Acton

Acton
Acton Town Hall (1910, extended 1939)
Acton within Middlesex in 1961
Area
• 1894	2,305 acres (9.3 km²)
• 1965	2,320 acres (9.4 km²)
Population
• 1901	37,744
• 1961	65,586
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1965
• Succeeded by	London Borough of Ealing
Status	Local board (1865 to 1894) Urban district (1894 to 1921) Municipal borough (from 1921) Civil parish

• Motto	`Floreat Actona (May Acton flourish)`
Arms of the borough council

Acton was a local government district in Middlesex, England from 1865 to 1965.

In 1865 the Local Government Act 1858 was adopted by the parish of Acton, and a twelve-member local board of health was formed to govern the area. The Local Government Act 1894 constituted the area an urban district, and an urban district council of fifteen councillors replaced the local board. The number of councillors was increased to sixteen in 1906.

In 1921 the town was granted a charter of incorporation to become a municipal borough. The borough council consisted of a mayor, six aldermen and twenty-four councillors.

On incorporation in 1921 the borough was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms. The shield featured an oak tree and the crest a branch of oak, both in reference to the derivation of the name "Acton" from "Oak Town". At the top of the shield were the arms of Middlesex County Council between an open book and a cogwheel for education and industry in the borough respectively.^[1]

Prior to the Second World War the borough council was controlled by the Conservative Party. In post-war elections control passed to the Labour Party.^[2]

In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London to be combined with that of other districts to form the London Borough of Ealing. The oak from the coat of arms is now present in the coat of arms of the London Borough of Ealing.

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Vision of Britain - Action UD / MB

Local government districts abolished or transferred by the London Government Act 1963

London CC	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar Shoreditch Southwark St. Marylebone St. Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich	Constituent parts of Greater London

Essex	Barking Chigwell (part) Chingford Dagenham East Ham Hornchurch Ilford Leyton Romford Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford West Ham

Hertfordshire	Barnet East Barnet

Middlesex, CC	Acton Brentford and Chiswick Ealing Edmonton Enfield Feltham Finchley Friern Barnet Harrow Hayes and Harlington Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey Ruislip-Northwood Southall Southgate Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Wembley Willesden Wood Green Yiewsley and West Drayton

Kent	Beckenham Bexley Bromley Chislehurst and Sidcup Crayford Erith Orpington Penge

Surrey	Barnes Beddington and Wallington Carshalton Coulsdon and Purley Croydon Kingston-upon-Thames Malden and Coombe Merton and Morden Mitcham Sutton and Cheam Surbiton Richmond Wimbledon

Transfers	Middlesex to Hertfordshire: Potters Bar Middlesex to Surrey: Staines Sunbury-on-Thames

Coordinates: 51°30′23″N 0°16′04″W / 51.5065°N 0.2677°W / 51.5065; -0.2677

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Municipal Borough of Acton

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