Eccles cake Eccles cakes do not have Protected Geographical Status, so may be manufactured anywhere and still labelled as "Eccles" cakes. The Banbury cake is an oval cake from Banbury, Oxfordshire, similarly filled with currants. The Chorley cake (from Chorley in Lancashire) is flatter, made with shortcrust pastry rather than flaky pastry and is devoid of sugar topping. The Blackburn cake is named after the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is made with stewed apples in place of currants. British fire brigades have reported fires started by Eccles cakes overcooked in microwave ovens. The problem occurs because sugar, contained in the cakes,
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