Eccles (England)

See also: Eccles (homonymy)

Eccles is a city of the metropolitan Comté of the Grand Manchester, in England pertaining to the district métroplitain (metropolitan borough) of Salford, but distinct from this last agglomeration. The city is bordered:
- in the south by the channel of Manchester (Manchester ship channel),
- in north and the North-West by the towns of Swinton and Worsley,
- in the east by that of Salford,
- in the west and south-west by those of Cat Moss and Irlam.

Until 1974, Eccles was an autonomous municipality, mait was absorbed by the municipal district of Salford when was created the metropolitan Comté Grand Manchester.

The town of Eccles, is composed of the districts of Peel Green, Patricroft, Barton (or Barton-upon-Irwell), Winton, Monton and Ellesmere Park in addition to the downtown area of Eccles itself.

These last years, Eccles saw decreasing its population in particular in the zones of Brookhouse Estate in Peel Green, Westwood Park in Winton, and Patricroft. Criminality is higher than the average of the United Kingdom there. It is hoped that the recent opening in 2000 of a new line of the Metrolink tram of Manchester will contribute to start again the investment in the city.

Eccles is famous in the United Kingdom to be at the origin of a very popular pastry making, the Eccles cakes . These cakes are now manufactured in Ardwick, a district of Manchester.

History

6th century - the name of “Eccles” derives from Latin ecclesia : church. This Latin word had been adopted by the Celtic tribes which occupied Roman Brittany and corresponds to the word “ eglwys ” in Welsh modern. The fact that “Eccles” became the name of the place suggests that the Anglo-Saxon colonists who settled there towards 600 found there a church of which they had intended to pronounce the Celtic name. 1796 - a pastrycook of Eccles, William Birch, invents the cakes with the grapes which will make the celebrity of the city and will be exported in the whole world.

1817 - Appearance of the Eccles Wakes , an annual festival in particular comprising a contest of women unijambists and eaters of slippers to apples. It was abolished in 1877.

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