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 north-west 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". 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. Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (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". 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, 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.