ECCLES, a parish in the hundred of SHROPHAM, county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (N.E.) from East Harling, containing 122 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk; and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £14, endowed with £400 royal bounty. The Rev. C. Miller and another were patrons in 1800. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.