A Comprehensive List of Eccles Chapelries

Lancashire Lancashire Probate Records  Lancashire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes D and E  ; Lancashire Parishes

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: