Acton, Shropshire: a small village south of Bishop's Castle

Acton is a village in Shropshire, England, located in the civil parish of Lydbury North, south of Bishop's Castle. The place-name appears in the county gazetteer tradition and the village remains a small rural settlement in the Shropshire countryside. Because current demographic data are generally published for larger civil units rather than for the village alone, a precise up-to-date population figure for the settlement itself is not normally listed separately.
Distance: south of Bishop's Castle, in south-west Shropshire.
Highlights: its quiet rural setting, traditional farmland scenery and access to walking country in the south-western Shropshire landscape.