Eccup
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 Old Village Hall, Eccup | |
  Eccup Location within West Yorkshire | |
| OS grid reference | SE2842 |
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| Metropolitan borough | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
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'.[1] From the sixteenth century the area up to the River Wharfe was known as Adel cum Eccup.[2]
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'.[3]
Geography
Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881) refers to a Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel in Eccup.[4]
Use in Emmerdale
Eccup and The New Inn public house at the north of the village are location settings for the soap Emmerdale.[5] 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.[citation needed]
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New Inn -
Burden Head Farm -
Sycamore Cottage -
Thornbush Cottage -
Emmerdale Village set
References
- ^ Victor Watts, 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.
- ^ Harry Parkin, Your City's Place-Names: Leeds, English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017), p. 29.
- ^ Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881), Part 1, page 48, accessed 25 November 2017
- ^ '[www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2012423_173488 Burden Head Farm, watercolour painting]', Leodis: A Photographic Archive of Leeds.
External links
Media related to Eccup at Wikimedia Commons
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