ACTON, a township, in that part of the parish of WREXHAM which is in the hundred of BROMFIELD, county of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 1 mile (N.) from Wrexham, containing 215 inhabitants. Acton Park was formerly the property and residence of the family of Jeffreys, from which sprang the notorious judge of that name, in the reign of James II. It is at present the seat of Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart.,.by purchase, in 1785, from the trustees of Ellis Yonge, Esq., by whom the mansion has been modernised and enlarged, and the grounds tastefully embellished: the site is a little elevated, and embraces a pleasing view of the town of Wrexham and the adjacent country. That ancient boundary line, Wat's Dyke, passed through this township, which supports its own poor according to an arrangement entered into in March, 1830.