Eccles, Greater Manchester

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3 Barton Ln, Eccles, Manchester M30, UK

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N53° 28' 56.64" W2° 20' 20.4"   (53.4824, -2.339) Start navigation »

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Eccles (; pop. 38,756 (2011)) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) west of Salford and 3.7 miles (6.0 km) west of Manchester city centre, between the M602 motorway to the north and the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.
Historically part of Lancashire, Eccles grew up 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.
Eccles cakes, first produced and sold in the town in 1793, are now exported across the world.

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