Esholt is a village and former civil parish in the metropolitan district of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

In 1709 their son Walter Calverley built Esholt Hall, a Queen Anne style mansion house, on the site of the old nunnery.

[15] The Church of Saint Paul was built at a cost of £800 in 1839 by William Rookes Crompton-Stansfield for use as a private family chapel.

[16] Historically part of the parish of Guiseley,[17] the Church of St Paul is a successor to the private chapel in the old manor house.

In 1869 William Stansfield of Esholt Hall obtained an injunction requiring Bradford Corporation to improve the sewage system so as not to pollute the beck.

Bradford Corporation built a treatment works at Frizinghall to treat sewage before the water was put in the river.

[29] The sludge digestion facility produces biogas that is used in a combined heat and power plant with two CHP engines generating 19 MWh per day which is 44% of the electrical energy requirements of the site.

[29] The old percolating filters are obsolete and there are plans to empty them and install photovoltaic panels to generate electricity to power the site, with any excess going to the National Grid.

[28][34] The effluent emerging from the sewage tunnel passes through motorised screens, then through the 64 tonne Spaans Babcock screw generators into the primary settling tanks.

[28][34][35] The equipment was installed in 2009 by JN Bentley and is the first site in the UK to use untreated (screened) sewage for hydro power generation.

[39] The series relocated to a purpose built set based on the layout of Esholt on the Harewood estate in Leeds.

The mill owner Sir Henry Mitchell (1824-1898) was born in Esholt and received a knighthood for his support and service to education in Bradford.