Eccles, Greater Manchester
Eccles is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, 3 miles west of Salford and 4 miles west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south. The town is famous for the Eccles cake. Eccles grew around the 13th-century Parish Church of St Mary.
People born in Eccles (First 14 people) - Page 1
Alfred Scott-Gatty
Composer
Ken Willingham
Footballer
Albert Holmes
Footballer, born 1942
Charles E. Dudley
Former Member of the New York State Senate
Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
Diplomat
Marie Studholme
Actress
Don Brennan
English cricketer
Walter Stirrup
Architect ‧ Dorothy Whipple's father
Christa Ackroyd
British journalist
Robert Liston
Surgeon
William Gillies
Australian politician
Richard Seddon
Former Prime minister of New Zealand
John Henry Poynting
English physicist
