Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire. The town has a population of approximately 75,000 and lies close to the Yorkshire Dales.
Emmerdale history[]
- In March 1974, Ethel Ainsworth took Amos Brearly to a ball in Harrogate along with her sister Grace and Grace's husband Ernest. Diana Prescott and Dryden Hogben also attended the ball.
- Christine Sharp went shopping there with her friend Celia Winterton in August 1974, returning home with a wedding dress, as well as a wedding shirt for her fiancee Joe Sugden. While there, she found a place to hire an Edwardian suit for him.
- Dolly Skilbeck spent the day there in June 1988, where she unexpectedly bumped into Stephen Fuller, whom she had been having an affair with. Stephen had been teaching some days at the agricultural college there.
- Kim Tate planned to meet with Neil Kincaid in October 1992, but he turned up at Home Farm as he couldn't wait to see her. A month later, they met up and spent the day shopping, bumping into Alan Turner, who invited them to tea at Betty's.
- Kim and her husband Frank went there for a shopping trip in April 1994. While having lunch at Betty's, Frank brought up the idea of proposing.
- Ogdens is a jewellery shop in the town that has been visited by Emmerdale residents on two separate occasions: Chris Tate and Rachel Hughes went there in November 1995 along with their infant son Joseph to look for an eternity ring, and Ross Barton took his nine-month-old son Moses there in March 2016 as he stole a rolex and a diamond ring from the shop.
- In April 1999, Paddy Kirk regularly visits his mother, who lives in Harrogate, when he thinks she is seriously ill.
- Robbie Lawson spent the day there with Priya Sharma in July 2012.
- Supermarket buyer Andrew represented a store chain that had a flagship branch in Harrogate. He visited the Sharma & Sharma factory in Emmerdale in October 2015. He was impressed by Jai Sharma and Kirin Kotecha's pitches and agreed to stock Jai's chocolates and Kirin's cordial range in the Harrogate store.
- Nell Fairfax and Jai Sharma went there to attend the funeral of her baby daughter Rosie in July 2017.
- Brenda Walker went there in November 2017 to pamper herself ahead of her belated birthday treat.
- Bob Hope and brothers Dan and Daz Spencer went there for a few drinks in April 2018. While there, Daz visited a salon to have his hair dyed after he overheard his girlfriend Bernice Blackstock complaining about her father but thought she was talking about him. Unbeknownst to him, however, he was being filmed as part of the reality television series The Real Hairdressers of Harrogate. The following week, the episode was transmitted, and Daz was forced to tell Bernice as he didn't know he would appear on TV and go viral.
- Will Taylor booked a meal for him and Harriet Finch at a fancy hotel in Harrogate to celebrate Harriet's 50th birthday in September 2019.
Real world[]
- Regular cast member Andrew Scarborough was born in the town on 30th November 1973.