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.
Eccup | |
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Old Village Hall, Eccup | |
Eccup Location within West Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE2842 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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The place-name 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'.[1] From the 16th century the region up to the River Wharfe was known as Adel cum Eccup.[2]
Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881) refers to a Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel in Eccup.[3]
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.
- New Inn
- Burden Head Farm
- Sycamore Cottage
- Thornbush Cottage
- Emmerdale Village set
References
- Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. ECCUP.
- www.leeds.gov.uk Adel NDS Revised Draft for Consultation April 2014
- Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881), Part 1, page 48, accessed 25 November 2017