A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ECCLES, a word used, both alone and as a prefix, in English topography, and signifying " a church. " A similar prefix, with the same meaning, occurs in Scotland and in Wales, in the forms of Eagles, Eglis, Eglos, and Eglwys; and may be regarded as variously Latin, French, and Celtic.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))