A town in northwest England known for its traditional Eccles cakes, a type of sweet pastry with dried fruit.
The town of Eccles derives from Old English 'eccles' itself borrowed from Latin 'ecclesia' (church), indicating it was a settlement around a church. The cakes are named after the town.
It's wild that the name 'Eccles' comes from the Latin word for church—a medieval church literally built a town around itself, and now centuries later we know the place mostly for its delicious cakes!
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