Ackton

Ackton
Ackton
	Ackton Location within West Yorkshire
Civil parish	Featherstone;
Metropolitan borough	City of Wakefield;
Metropolitan 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
UK Parliament	Hemsworth;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°41′31″N 1°22′34″W / 53.692058°N 1.376018°WCoordinates: 53°41′31″N 1°22′34″W / 53.692058°N 1.376018°W

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

Historically part of the West Riding of 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").^[1] 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.^[2] The village is mentioned again, this time more correctly, c. 1166 as Aicton.

References[]

^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
^ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Ackton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

External links[]

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Ackton in the Domesday Book

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[1] Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.

[2] Powell-Smith, Anna. "Ackton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

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Ackton

Ackton Location within West Yorkshire
Civil parish	Featherstone
Metropolitan borough	City of Wakefield
Metropolitan 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

UK Parliament	Hemsworth
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°41′31″N 1°22′34″W / 53.692058°N 1.376018°W / 53.692058; -1.376018Coordinates: 53°41′31″N 1°22′34″W / 53.692058°N 1.376018°W / 53.692058; -1.376018