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Eccles (/ ˈɛkəlz /) is a market town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, [ 1 ] 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Salford and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. The town is famous for the Eccles cake.
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Sep 2, 2024 · Guide to Eccles, Lancashire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
History of Eccles, in Salford and Lancashire | Map and description. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Eccles like this: ECCLES, a village and a parish in Lancashire.
Eccles is a town in southern Lancashire, three miles west of Salford and four miles west of Manchester city centre. Eccles is on sloping ground between the M602 motorway to the north and the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. It is a former industrial town, though declined and now a poor place.
ECCLES, a village and a parish in Lancashire. The village stands on the river Irwell, and on the Manchester and Liverpool railway, 4 miles W of Manchester ; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under.
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Eccles is located in the county of Greater Manchester, North West England, two miles west of the major city of Salford, 143 miles north of Cardiff, and 165 miles north-west of London. Eccles lies six miles north-east of the Cheshire border, and was historically in the county of Lancashire.
