Eccup


Eccup is a village in the civil parish of Alwoodley and north of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is just north of Alwoodley and east of Bramhope and Golden Acre Park. Eccup is at the northwest edge of Eccup reservoir.

Etymology

The place-name Eccup is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Echope. It is thought to derive from an Old English personal name Ecca + hōp 'enclosed land amid unpromising land; a small, enclosed valley'. It would therefore mean something like 'Ecca's patch of good land'. From the sixteenth century the area up to the River Wharfe was known as Adel cum Eccup.
Burden Head Farm, just to the north of the village, is also first attested in the Domesday book, as Burgedurun and Burgheduru’. It is thought to come from the Old English words burg and dūn; thus it once meant 'hill of the fortification'.

Geography

of the West Riding of Yorkshire refers to a Methodist chapel in Eccup.

Use in ''Emmerdale''

Eccup and The New Inn public house at the north of the village are location settings for the soap Emmerdale. Brookland Farm, a working farm to the south of the pub, is used for external shots of Butlers Farm, and Creskeld Hall, northwest in Arthington, for Home Farm. However, most of the soap is filmed in a specially built village in the neighbouring parish of Harewood to the northeast.