Acton Green History
Acton Green, which has a station on the District railway, was formed into an ecclesiastical district June 17th, 1888, out of Acton parish. The church of St. Alban the Martyr, on the Green, is an edifice of red brick in the Early English style, consisting of temporary chancel, permanent nave, clerestory, aisles, baptistry and north and south porches: the east window, presented by the parents of the late Rev. G. H. Manbey M.A. vicar from 1888 to 1898, and another are stained: there are 730 sittings. The register dates from the year 1888. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of London, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Bernard Spink L.Th, of Durham University. The vicarage house was built in 1893. The population in 1891 was 3,942.