Editing Acton, London (section)

===Origins===
[[File:Stmarysacton2.jpg|thumb|[[St Mary's Church, Acton, London|St Mary's Church]], King Street, Acton Central]]
Different phases of prehistoric settlement are marked by a range of finds. It begins with a cluster of [[Upper Palaeolithic]] and [[Mesolithic]] flint cores,<ref name="AGL">{{Cite web |title=Evidence of Ancient Humans |url=https://www.mola.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/The%20archaeology%20of%20Greater%20London%20an%20assessment%20of%20archaeological%20evidence%20for%20human%20presence%20in%20the%20area%20now%20covered%20by%20Greater%20London_Part1.pdf |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=www.mola.org.uk}}</ref> flakes<ref name="AGL" /> and artefacts<ref name="AGL" /> mainly to the north of [[Churchfield Road]]. Around the Mill Hill Park area, a [[Neolithic]] axe,<ref name="AGL" /> and a group of [[Bronze Age]] [[Deverel-Rimbury]] urns and cremated bone<ref name="AGL" /> were found, along with an [[Iron Age]] pot shard.<ref name="AGL" /> [[Iron Age]] coins were also found near [[Bollo Lane]]. The [[Roman Britain|Roman]] period is represented by a ditch<ref name="AGL" /> in the same area, and a hoard<ref name="AGL" /> north of Springfield Gardens. In the Middle Ages the northern half of the parish was heavily wooded. Oaks and elms still stood along roads and hedgerows and in private grounds in the early 20th century, but most of the woodland had been cleared by the 17th century, even on the extensive Old Oak common.<ref name=growth>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22546|title=Acton: Growth|editor1=T F T Baker |editor2= C R Elrington |author1=Diane K Bolton |author2=Patricia E C Croot |author3=M A Hicks|publisher=Institute of Historical Research|date=1982|work=A History of the County of Middlesex |volume=7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden|access-date=5 November 2014}}</ref>