Erp (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛr(ə)p]) is a village in southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant between 's-Hertogenbosch and Eindhoven.

Veghel is 5 km northwest of Erp and other neighboring towns, including Uden (north), Boekel (east), Gemert (southeast), Beek en Donk (south) and Sint-Oedenrode (west).

The earliest traces of habitation in Erp and its immediate surroundings are found on the town's southeast side, on the road to Gemert near the river Aa.

In 1579, seven Northern Dutch provinces declared their independence, while Brabant remained part of the Spain of Philip II, son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia concluded the Eighty Years' War (Tachtigjarige Oorlog) of the Northern Dutch provinces against the Habsburgs.

After the ravages of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe, at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Brabant was reunited in the newly established Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The liberated strip from Eindhoven to Arnhem was later nicknamed Hell's Highway.Before 1994, the municipality of Erp included the villages of Boerdonk and Keldonk and a few hamlets like Rijkerbeek and Stinkhoek.

In the year of the Lord 1412.” The age of the bells makes them rare in the area and they narrowly avoided confiscation in 1942, during the German occupation.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, simple masonry churches with a nave and two aisles were built in a regional variant of the late-Gothic style throughout the Campine.

The most characteristic element of these Campine Gothic churches is the monumental brick bell tower or steeple with heavy-set diagonal buttresses on all four corners, examples of which can still be found throughout the region.

The spire of the steeple was designed by famous architect Pierre Cuypers, after the original was destroyed by a fire caused by lightning in 1895.

Dutch dressage champion Anky van Grunsven was born January 2, 1968, in Erp and recently moved back.