South Acton Middlesex Family History Guide
South Acton an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex created in 1873 from Acton St Mary Ancient Parish. South Acton ecclesiastical boundaries were altered in 1879 to help create Bedford Park Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1889 to help create Acton Green St Alban The Martyr Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1915 to help create Acton Green St Peter Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1929 to help create Gunnersbury Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parish church: All Saints, Bollo Bridge road
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1872
- Bishop’s Transcripts:
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Parish History
Kelly’s Directory of Middlesex 1890
SOUTH ACTON, which has a station on the North London railway, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish June 27th, 1873.
The church of All Saints, situated in Bollo Bridge road, and consecrated 26th September, 1872, is an edifice of red brick in the Florid Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave of five bays, with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a tower at the south west angle with lofty spire containing a clock and 8 bells: the whole of the windows are stained, and there are sittings for 750 persons. The register dates from the year 1872.
The living is a vicarage net yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of London, and held since 1872 by the Rev Andrew Hunter Dunn M.A., formerly scholar of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge.
Here is a temporary Catholic chapel, dedicated to the Church of Our Lady. South Acton parish hall, Bollo Bridge road, erected in 1886, has an area of 32 by 75 feet, and is used for Sunday school purposes and public assemblies; it will hold 350 persons. The population of the parish in 1881 was 7,195.
Parish Records
See Acton Middlesex Family History Guide