Five bells are hung in the tower for change ringing with the heaviest weighing 8cwt-1qr-4lb (928 lb), and the oldest dating from 1659 cast by Miles Graye III, the tower is affiliated to the Suffolk Guild of Ringers.

[3][4] In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the village as: ACTON, a parish in Sudbury district, Suffolk; near the river Stour, 2½ miles N by E of Sudbury r. station.

[7] Acton is part of the Suffolk County Council electoral division of Sudbury East and Waldingfield, and is represented by Philip Faircloth-Mutton (Conservative).

Jennens made his money through business in London and loaning money to gamblers, and was Britain's richest man at the time of his death in 1798, but aged 97 he had outlived the nominated executors and beneficiaries under his will.

[10] Another Acton resident, Catherine Foster, was the last woman to be hanged at Bury St Edmunds, in 1847.

At the age of 17 she poisoned her husband John Foster by putting arsenic in his dumplings.