A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Eccles.-- town and par. with ry. sta., SE. Lancashire, on river Irwell, 4 miles W. of Manchester, of which it is practically an outlying suburb -- par., 22,028 ac. (290 water), pop. 98,187; town, pop. 11,143; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 2 newspapers; the cotton mfr. is extensively carried on. The Right Hon. Wm. Huskisson died at Eccles from the injuries he received at the opening (1830) of the Liverpool and Manchester Ry.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "town and parish with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Eccles AP/CP Eccles CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Eccles |
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