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Ackton is a hamlet in the parish of Featherstone, in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. It is near Pontefract. In 1931 the parish had a population of 961.[1]
History
[edit]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").[2] 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.[3] The village is mentioned again, this time more correctly, c. 1166 as Aicton.[4]
Ackton was a township in the parish of Featherstone,[5] from 1866 Ackton was a civil parish but on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Snydale to form "Ackton and Snydale".[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Population statistics Ackton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. OCLC 1228215388.
- ↑ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Ackton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ↑ Smith, Albert H. (1986). The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 2; Osgoldcross and Agbrigg Wapentakes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 85. OCLC 615109017.
- ↑ "History of Ackton, in Wakefield and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ "Relationships and changes Ackton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
External links
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Media related to Ackton at Wikimedia Commons- Ackton in the Domesday Book
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