strathspey@strathspey.org:44118

Peter Hastings

RE: Eccles Rant - No Answers?

Feb. 3, 2006, 7:26 p.m. (Message 44118, in reply to message 44115)

Eccles is a fairly common prefix in Scots placenames and there is at least
one Eccles with no suffix. It shares the same root as the 'eagles' in
Gleneagles and denotes a church, the Gaelic for which has decided from the
same origins as eglise/yglesia. So Eccles' Rant may be named for a village
rather than a character in The Goon Show.

Peter Hastings
Murieston


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