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Acton Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It is approximately north-east from the city and county town of Hereford, and south-east from the market town of Bromyard.

The name Acton Beauchamp means 'Oak-tree farm'. The 'Beauchamp' part was added later after the Beauchamp family held the manor in the 13th Century. Despite being in Herefordshire, Acton Beauchamp was in the upper division of Worcestershire Doddingtree Hundred. The parish population is scattered among farms, cottages and other housing over the hillsides, and was 229 at the 2011 Census. The village has a spring which is intermittent.

The parish church, dedicated to Saint Giles, is built in Norman style, partly rebuilt in 1819. It contains an Anglo Saxon carved stone door lintel reused in the wall of the Norman church tower; the carving depicts a bird, a lion, and what is possibly a goat.