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
Eccles (character) Early cameo at the beginning of "The Great Art Mystery/The Case Of The Fake Neddie Seagoons": When Milligan wrote "The Idiot Weekly", an Australian version of "The Goon Show", Eccles often made appearances in the script. Eccles also possessed remarkable stupidity when dealing with physical objects; in "The Greatest Mountain in the World" he describes two sticks of dynamite as "What luck! Two big cigars and they're both lit!" Eccles would frequently engage in echolalia, a symptom of several mental illnesses (including bipolar disorder, which Milligan himself suffered from). He also had a tendency to copy or outright assume the