Acton Burnell
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Acton Burnell is a village and parish in the English county of Shropshire. Home to Concord College, it is also famous for an early meeting of Parliament where the Statute merchant was passed in 1283. The population at the 2011 census was 544.
The village today has a post office and Anglican parish church, as well as a Roman Catholic cemetery.