Eccup is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

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and north of the

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, England. It is just north of Alwoodley and east of

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and

Golden Acre Park Golden Acre Park is a public park in Bramhope, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (), administered by Leeds City Council. It is on the A660 Otley Road and covers an area of .Leeds City Council ''Golden Acre Park Guide and Map'' (undated) History T ...

. Eccup is at the north-west edge of

Eccup Reservoir Eccup Reservoir is a reservoir in Alwoodley, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, near the village of Eccup. It was first constructed in 1843,''The Leeds Mercury'' Saturday, 3 June 1843; Issue 5713, Local Intelligence and expanded to it ...

Etymology

The place-name ''Eccup'' is first attested in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

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 The River Wharfe ( ) is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Its valley is known as Wharfeda ...

was known as ''Adel cum Eccup''.www.leeds.gov.uk
Adel NDS Revised Draft for Consultation April 2014. Adel is about 2 miles south-west of 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'' ('fortified place') and ''dūn''; thus it once meant 'hill of the fortification'.

Geography

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of the

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(1881) refers to a Methodist (Wesleyan) 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 ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffa ...

''.' ww.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2012423_173488 Burden Head Farm, watercolour painting, ''Leodis: A Photographic Archive of Leeds''. Brookland Farm, a working farm to the south of the pub, is used for external shots of Butlers Farm, and Creskeld Hall, north-west in

Arthington Arthington is a small village in Wharfedale, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is a civil parish which, according to the 2011 census, had a population of 532 and is in the LS21 postcode district with O ...

, for Home Farm. However, most of the soap is filmed in a specially built village in the neighbouring parish of Harewood to the north-east. File:New Inn Eccup 2016.jpg, New Inn File:Burden Head Farm Eccup 2016.jpg, Burden Head Farm File:Sycamore Cottage Eccup.jpg, Sycamore Cottage File:Thornbush Cottage Eccup.jpg, Thornbush Cottage File:Emmerdale village by John Turner.jpg, Emmerdale Village set

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