Eccles is a census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Eccles is located on West Virginia Route 3 4 miles west of Beckley. Eccles has a post office with ZIP code 25836. As of the 2010 census, its population is 362.The community was named for a businessperson in the mining industry. Eccles is the site of the April 28, 1914 Eccles coal mining disaster, which took the lives of 180 men.