Eccles, Greater Manchester along the route of the track linking those two cities. Eccles cakes, first produced and sold in the town in 1796, are now exported across the world. The derivation of the name is uncertain, but several ideas have been proposed. One is that the "Eccles" place-name is derived from the Romano-British "Ecles" or "Eglys", itself derived from the Ancient Greek "Ecclesia". Following the arrival in AD 613 of the invading Anglo-Saxons at Lancashire, many existing British place-names, especially rivers and hills (the River Irwell for example), survived intact. The root "Ecles", found in several village names, is an exception to
Listed buildings in Eccles, Greater Manchester listed building is a church, and apart from a 17th-century house and a sundial, the others date from the 19th and 20th centuries. The later listed buildings include houses, churches, public houses, a hotel, a library, and a war memorial. Barton aerodrome developed in the 1930s, and two surviving structures from this are listed. Listed buildings in Eccles, Greater Manchester Eccles is a town in the City of Salford Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester, England. The town, which includes the area of Patricroft, contains 24 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is