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
Nigel Eccles taking place in 2017. In November 2017 Eccles left FanDuel to pursue a new venture in the esports industry. In January 2018, Eccles co-founded an Edinburgh-based video game and social streaming platform Flick. Nigel Eccles Nigel Eccles is a Northern Irish businessman currently serving as the CEO of the esports company Flick. He is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Hubdub and FanDuel. Eccles launched the online political prediction market Hubdub in 2007. He admitted that Hubdub "didn’t really have a good business model," which made him change the focus of the company. Hubdub later turned into