![]() ![]() The poetic description by Ormerod is: "The scenery of this district consists principally of fine meadow ground sloping to the banks of the Weever and not destitute of pleasing undulations of surface or fine timber which here receiving protection from the sea breezes begins to attain its wonted luzuriancy". This parish was in the Eddisbury Hundred. In the Middle Ages, Weaverham included six entire townships, Weaverham, Acton, Crowton, Cuddington, Onston and Wallescote and also parts of Norley and Hartford. In George Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Acton in Delamere is mentioned with Milton as being part of "Wiverham fee" or parish at the time of Domesday Book (1086). The old spelling is Actune Ac (Saxon) meaning "oak", and tune or tun meaning "farm or place" – so the name meant "Oak Farm" or "a place in the oak forest". The village was called Acton in Delamere until recent times, when it was a changed to Acton Bridge to avoid confusion with Acton near Nantwich. Archaeological remains of an ancient fortification have also been found in that area, on the bluff above Acton Brook. It was found near Acton Brook, about 70 metres from Acton Bridge station and 300 metres from Onston. ![]() The earliest evidence of human presence in the area is by the discovery of a Langdale axe dating from the Iron Age. Once famous for its pear orchards and dairy farms, it is now a pleasant dormitory village with easy access to the motorway network. It is on the West Coast Main Line railway. Īcton Bridge is a small village of 265 households and about 600 inhabitants, situated four miles west of Northwich in Cheshire, on the south bank of the River Weaver. This section is adapted (with permission) from Snapshots in Time, a book about the village published by the Acton Bridge WI to mark the Millennium in 2000.
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