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Eccles Sixth Form Centre
Eccles may refer to: Places England * Eccles, Greater Manchester, a town in North West England ** Eccles (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral division represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ** Eccles (ward), an electoral ward * Eccles, Kent, England * Eccles on Sea, Norfolk, England Scotland * Eccles, Scottish Borders France * Eccles, Nord, a commune in Nord department, France United States * Eccles, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia * Eccles Avenue Historic District, Ogden, Utah * Eccles Broadcast Center, Salt Lake City, Utah * Eccles Building, Washington, D.C. * Eccles Coliseum, in Cedar City, Utah, home of the Southern Utah University football team * Rice-Eccles Stadium, in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the University of Utah football team Transport * Eccles railway station in Eccles Greater Manchester. * Eccles Interchange tram/bus interchange in Eccles Greater Manchester. * Eccles Line a tram line in Greater Manchester. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eccles, Greater Manchester
Eccles () is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, west of Salford and 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. Eccles grew around the 13th-century Parish Church of St Mary. Evidence of pre-historic human settlement has been discovered locally, but the area was predominantly agricultural until the Industrial Revolution, when a textile industry was established in the town. The arrival of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway, led to the town's expansion along the route of the track linking those two cities. History Toponymy The derivation of the name is uncertain, but two suggestion have been proposed. The received one is that the "Eccles" place-name is derived from the Romano-British ''Ecles'' or ''Eglys'' ("eglwys" in Welsh means "church"), which in turn is derived from the Ancient Greek Ecclesia via the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
