Eccles, Salford

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Eccles is a town in Salford

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Eccles within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Eccles in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Eccles.-- town and par. with ry. sta., SE. Lancashire, on river Irwell, 4 miles W. of Manchester, of which it is practically an outlying suburb -- par., 22,028 ac. (290 water), pop. 98,187; town, pop. 11,143; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 2 newspapers; the cotton mfr. is extensively carried on. The Right Hon. Wm. Huskisson died at Eccles from the injuries he received at the opening (1830) of the Liverpool and Manchester Ry.

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