- For the Eccleston near St Helens in Merseyside, see Eccleston, Merseyside. Eccleston is a Civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside.
- For the scuba diving site, see Eccleston Quarry. Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph and Eccy Delph (pronounced "ekky"
| Eccleston | |
  Eccleston shown within Lancashire | |
| Population | 4,353 (2001 Census) |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | |
| Parish | Eccleston |
| District | Chorley |
| Shire county | Lancashire |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHORLEY |
| Postcode district | PR7 |
| Dialling code | 01257 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Chorley |
| List of places: UK • England • Lancashire | |
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Eccleston's two textile mills are now closed. The "Old Mill" building is now being used as an antique, collectable and nostalgia retail space called "Bygone Times". The "New Mill" has been converted into a small village shopping centre.
The village has two schools, Eccleston St. Mary's Church of England Primary School and Eccleston Primary School.
Its name came from the Celtic word "eglēs" meaning a church, and the Old English word "tūn" meaning a farmstead or settlement - i. The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic" a branch of the greater Indo-European Language family. e. a settlement by a Romano-British church. Romano-British culture is that of the Romanized Britons under the Roman Empire and later the Western Roman Empire, and of those exposed to Roman culture in the years
Nowadays it acts as a rural suburb for commuters to Central Lancashire, Liverpool, and Manchester, set amidst countryside. South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. Commuting is the process of Travelling between one's place of residence and regular place of work Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary
Notable people
- St. John Rigby, martyr
- Anthony Jackson III, of St. Saint John Rigby (c 1570 &ndash June 21, 1600) was an English Catholic and martyr who was executed during the reign of Mary's Parish, a son of Sir Anthony Jackson II from Yorkshire who was a courtier for Charles I and Charles II. Anthony III later left Eccleston for County Cavan, Ireland, having obtained settling rights in Ireland from the Cromwells. One of III's sons was an Isaac Jackson, who became a Quaker, went first to Oldcastle in County Meath, then to Ballitore in County Kildare, Ireland, and then with his family to the Quaker settlements in rural Chester County PA. Isaac has hundreds of descendants in the USA as of 2008, and was a collateral relation to US President Andrew Jackson and in a subsequrnt generation, the US Civil War general, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
External links
- Eccleston chorley. gov. uk.
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