The museum also has an extensive depot, situated at Acton, that contains material impossible to display at the central London museum, including many additional road vehicles, trains, collections of signs and advertising materials.

With the demise of Acton Works this no longer applies, and the new 2009 tube stock has a wider profile and slightly longer carriages which preclude it running on other deep-level tube lines.

How ever cloud over West London meant they missed their target, knowing this they decided not to take the bombs home so they dropped them all on South Acton and that is why South Acton has all the high rise flats.

Since World War II, Acton has had a small but notable population of Polish immigrants.

A Japanese school has also attracted a Japanese community to West Acton.

The Acton High Street has a range of pubs which vary in theme and clientele.

* Musician M. I. A in interviews has hinted one of the meanings of her stage name is " Missing in Acton ", with Acton being the place she grew up.

Acton has seven railway stations, namely North, East, South, West, Central, Mainline and Town.

Additionally the former towns of Ealing and Acton has a large Polish community.

Almost all of Acton is forested, except for where it has been cleared for residential or agricultural use.

Acton has nine drumlins — hills which are composed of glacial till.

Acton has two primary stream systems: the Nashoba Brook system including the incoming streams Butter Brook, Will's Hole Brook and Conant Brook and the Fort Pond Brook system including the incoming streams Guggins Brook, Inch Brook, Grassy Pond Brook, Pratt's Brook and Coles Brook.

While Acton Center has been the civic center of the town since the revolution, the four other villages centers earned their nomenclature from the names of their corresponding railroad station.

* North Acton has had major growth in the period since 1975-80.

With the growth of the Rte 2A / 119 corridor, North Acton has developed many commercial complexes and condominium buildings.

Acton has held annual town meetings since 1735, the records of which are held at Acton's Memorial Library.

Acton also has a water district, which is run separately from town government, as a public utility.

Acton has a total of over of town-owned conservation lands.

Acton has an unusual method of assigning students to elementary schools, called " Open Enrollment.

Acton has two public libraries: the Acton Memorial Library and the West Acton Citizens ' Library ( The Secret Library ).

Acton is the only town in London to have all four of the points of the compass as Stations.

The Liberal historian Lord Acton read Macaulay's History of England four times and later described himself as " a raw English schoolboy, primed to the brim with Whig politics " but " not Whiggism only, but Macaulay in particular that I was so full of ".

He was the third of four children of William Heward Bell ( 1849 – 1927 ) and Hannah Taylor Cory ( 1850 – 1942 ), with an elder brother ( Cory ), an elder sister ( Lorna Bell Acton ), and a younger sister ( Dorothy Bell Honey ).

As Fairfax approached Acton, Colonel Richard Gibson ( deputising for Byron's Sergeant-Major General Sir Michael Erneley, who was ill ), deployed four regiments of infantry ( his own and those of Sir Michael Erneley, Colonel Henry Warren and Sir Robert Byron, younger brother of Lord John Byron ) to face Fairfax.

In the early 20th century, Acton was the main urban community of Esquesing Township, much larger than nearby Georgetown, Ontario which now has four times the population.

The family relocated to Acton, Ontario, when Tom was four years old and later to Etobicoke, Ontario.

Acton passed to Suarez, who went four or five days a week to the villa, some of the formal Renaissance garden ideals that were being revived in the late nineteenth century by designers such as Achille Duchêne.

Born and raised in Acton, west London, Friday was scouted, but not retained, by four professional clubs during his teenage years.

Carell, the youngest of four brothers, was born at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Acton, Massachusetts.

The Tomatoes managed a couple of e. ps, including ' Acton Baby ' and the four track CD ' Hormones and Hangovers.

Acton 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.

Named for Julia McCarthy who taught at the South Acton School from 1906 to 1952 and Marion Towne who was a teacher in the primary and secondary schools in Acton from 1921 to 1959.

For those age 25 years or older in Acton during the 2000 census, 97. 8 % had a high school degree or higher, 69. 3 % had a bachelor's degree or higher, and 33. 9 % had a graduate degree or higher.

At the beginning of the century, each village in Acton had its own grade school, but the town struggled with how to provide a high school education for its students.

For most of the early 20th century ( until 1925 ), Acton students were sent to Concord's high school.

Junior high ( grades 7 – 8 ) and high school students ( grades 9 – 12 ) attend school in the neighboring town of Acton.

Its proximity to Acton, the location of the Australian National University makes it a desirable location for students and professors to live, although the high rent prices force many students to look elsewhere.

In 1980 the Acton factory employed around 3, 000 people making heavy duty electric equipment for commercial vehicles, by this time high volume diesel fuel injection manufacturing had been relocated to larger modern factories in Kent, Suffolk, Gloucestershire and many countries throughout the world.

The Acton Public School District consists of five elementary schools and the Acton Public School Pre-school.

Acton is less oriented around neighborhoods than towns which have neighborhood based schools.

Named for Carolyn T. Douglas who was a teacher and principal in the Acton schools from 1940 to 1967.

These post-elementary schools are administered by the regional school district, serving Acton and Boxborough.

The schools being Mambrino School, Acton Middle School, and Granbury High School.

Early in the 20th Century, new sites for the Hoxton schools were purchased in Hampstead for the Boys and Acton for the Girls.