title: Acton
text: # Acton
  
  Acton may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### Antarctica
  
  * Mount Acton
  
  ### Australia
  
  * Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
  * Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
  * Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Acton, Ontario, a community
  * Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario
  * Acton, New Brunswick
  * Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  
  ### New Zealand
  
  * Acton, New Zealand, a rural community
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland
  * Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
  * Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)
  * Acton, Dorset, a hamlet
  * Acton, London, an area of west London
     * East Acton
     * North Acton
     * South Acton, London
     * West Acton
     * Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district
     * Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
  * Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet
  * Acton, Shropshire, a village
  * Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet
  * Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil parish
  * Acton, Worcestershire
  * Acton, Wrexham, a local government community
  
  ### United States
  
  * Acton, Alabama, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, California, an unincorporated census-designated place
  * Acton, Florida, a former town
  * Acton, Georgia, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, Indiana, a community
  * Acton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, Maine, a town
  * Acton, Massachusetts, a town
  * Acton Township, Meeker County, Minnesota
     * Acton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, Montana, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
  * Acton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota
  * Acton Lake, Ohio
  * Acton, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  * Acton, Texas, an unincorporated community
  * Acton State Historic Site, Texas
  
  ## Schools
  
  * Acton School of Business, Austin, Texas
  * Acton Technical College, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom
  * Acton High School (Massachusetts), a former American high school, on the National Register of Historic Places
  * Ark Acton Academy, in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England
  
  ## People
  
  * Acton (surname)
  * Acton Bell, a pen name of Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet
  * Eugenia de Acton, a pen name of Alethea Lewis (1749–1827), English novelist
  * Acton Adams (1843–1924), British politician
  * Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British barrister and politician
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Acton Institute, an American think tank
  * Acton Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund
  * Acton station (disambiguation)
  * Baron Acton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  * Acton Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
  * Acton (Turrell), an artwork by James Turrell
  * The Actons, a family in The Europeans, a Henry James novel
  * Acton, a minor character in The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
  * Acton, an alternative spelling of aketon (gambeson)
  