OS grid reference SE2842 Country England Police West Yorkshire | Metropolitan borough City of Leeds Sovereign state United Kingdom Metropolitan county West Yorkshire | |
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Region Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
Eccup is a village in the north of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is just north of Adel and east of Bramhope and Golden Acre Park. It is home to Eccup reservoir, the New Inn Pub, and the village set of the soap Emmerdale. Although the majority of the filming is done in the specially built village, Brookland Farm, a working farm to the south of the New Inn, is used for the external shots of Butlers Farm in the soap, and Creskeld Hall, in nearby Arthington, is used for Home Farm.
Map of Eccup, Leeds, UK
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'. From the 16th century the region up to the River Wharfe was known as Adel cum Eccup.