Eccup

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'. The name is referred to as Ecop in the Coucher Book of Kirkstall Abbey. 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.

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References

References

1. "Wharfedale Registration District". UKBMD.
2. 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''.
3. [[Thoresby Society]] (1904), ''Coucher Book of Kirkstall Abbey'', Volume VIII, Part III, p. 246
4. [http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Adel%20Revised%20Draft%20NDS%20April%202014lr%2031-65.pdf www.leeds.gov.uk] {{Webarchive. link. (19 September 2016 Adel NDS Revised Draft for Consultation April 2014.)
5. Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2017), p. 29.
6. [http://forebears.io/england/yorkshire/adel/eccup Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881)], Part 1, page 48, accessed 25 November 2017
7. [https://www.leodis.net/ViewImage/ByIndicator/2012423_173488 Burden Head Farm, watercolour painting], ''Leodis: A Photographic Archive of Leeds'', accessed 18 March 2024