ACOL (sometimes called Wood) is a ville or liberty and chapelry, and a member of the Cinque Port liberty of Dover, and is situated near one of the roads from Margate to London and the Margate railway, 1 ½ miles south from Birchington station on the South Eastern and Chatham railway, 4 south-west from Margate and 70 from London, in the isle of Thanet division of the county, Ringslow hundred, Margate county court district, lathe of St. Augustine and isle of Thanet union, and is under the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports justices. Acol was formerly called “Ville of Woode,” and had a chapel at Woodchurch, 2 miles north-west, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen; in 1564 the service was discontinued and the chapel, of which some remains still exist, fell into ruins. The mission church of St. Mildred, erected in 1876, seats about 100 persons. The chapelry is annexed to the vicarage of Birchington. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. The trustees of the Marquess Conyngham (a minor), H. H. P. Cotton esq. and Mrs, Sicklemore are the principal landowners. The soil is a light loam, very thin in some places; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas and cinquefoil. The area of the district is 1,137 acres of land and 47 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,819; the population in 1901 was 225.

The children of this place attend the school at Birchington.