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Eccles

Eccles is a market town in the in , England, 3 miles west of Salford city centre and 4 miles west of , split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.
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  • Type: Town with 37,300 residents
  • Description: town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England
  • Also known as: “Eccles, Greater Manchester”, “Eccles, Lancashire”, and “Eccles, Manchester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eccles Town Hall and Eccles railway station.

Town hall
Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipal building in Church Street, Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall was the headquarters of Eccles Borough Council until the council was abolished in 1974.

Railway station
serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Bus station
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a transport hub in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It is composed of a bus station and a single-platform Metrolink light rail station, the latter of which is the terminus of the system's Eccles Line, and opened on 21 July 2000.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trafford Park and Dumplington.

Suburb
is an area of the metropolitan borough of , Greater Manchester, England, opposite on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles southwest of and 1.3 miles north of .

Suburb
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is an area of , , England. was one of several hamlets in the township of Barton-upon-Irwell, in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Eccles in the hundred of Salford.

Suburb
Irlams o' th' Height is a suburb of , , England, on top of the Irwell Valley, on higher ground than , hence the name.

Eccles

Latitude
53.48409° or 53° 29′ 3″ north
Longitude
-2.33752° or 2° 20′ 15″ west
Population
37,300
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ECS
Open location code
9C5VFMM6+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 307938234
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2650278
Wiki­data ID
Q2342197
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Eccles” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Eccles”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ekls”
  • Basque: “Eccles (Manchester Handia)”
  • Basque: “Eccles”
  • Bengali: “একক্লেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Екълс”
  • Catalan: “Eccles”
  • Cebuano: “Eccles”
  • Chinese: “埃克尔斯”
  • Chinese: “埃克爾斯”
  • Dutch: “Eccles”
  • Esperanto: “Eccles”
  • French: “Eccles”
  • German: “Eccles”
  • Gujarati: “ઈક્લેસ”
  • Hebrew: “אקלס”
  • Irish: “Eccles, Manchain Mhór”
  • Irish: “Eccles”
  • Italian: “Eccles”
  • Japanese: “エクルズ (イングランド)”
  • Japanese: “バートン”
  • Kannada: “ಎಕ್ಲೆಸ್”
  • Korean: “바턴”
  • Ladin: “Eccles”
  • Lithuanian: “Bartonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Eklsas”
  • Persian: “اکلز، منچستر بزرگ”
  • Persian: “اکلس، منچستر بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Eccles”
  • Portuguese: “Eccles”
  • Russian: “Экклс”
  • Russian: “Эклс (Большой Манчестер)”
  • Russian: “Эклс”
  • Russian: “Экльс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Eccles, Greater Manchester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکلز، منچستر بزرق”
  • Spanish: “Eccles”
  • Swedish: “Eccles, Greater Manchester”
  • Swedish: “Eccles”
  • Tamil: “ஈசிலெஸ்”
  • Telugu: “ఎక్లెస్”
  • Urdu: “ایکلس، گریٹر مانچسٹر”
  • Urdu: “یککلیس”
  • Welsh: “Eccles, Manceinion Fwyaf”
  • Welsh: “Eccles”
  • “Eccles”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Salford Veterans Community Centre and Eccles Community Art Gallery.

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