A Comprehensive List of Eccles Chapelries

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ECCLES (*St. Mary de Eccles is the ancient parish), a parish, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles (W.) from Manchester; containing, with the townships of Barton-upon-Irwell, Clifton, Pendlebury, and Worsley, and the chapelry of Pendleton, 33,792 inhabitants. From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 136-139. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx.

The following chapelries (churches of the Church of England with baptism, sometimes marriage and burial registers) were attached to Eccles Parish:


 * Eccles St Mary - 1563
 * Barton-upon-Irwell - 1843
 * Ellenbrook - 1760
 * Pendlebury - 1842
 * Pendleton - 1776
 * Swinton -1791
 * Walkden-Moor - 1839
 * Worsley - 1846
 * Paddington -1846