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53°47′51″N 01°32′37″W. / 53.79750°N 1.54361°W / 53.79750; -1.54361. Leeds is a city [ a] in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River ...
History of Leeds. J. M. W. Turner 's 1816 painting of Leeds, from Beeston Hill. At the left-hand edge is Marshall's Mill, in the centre is Trinity Church, and further to the right, through the smoke, is the tower of Leeds Parish Church, now Leeds Minster. Loidis, from which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the ...
City of Leeds. Latin: Pro Rege et Lege, lit. 'For King and the Law'. / 53.8007; -1.5502. Leeds, [7] also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley, Garforth, Guiseley, Horsforth, Morley, Otley ...
The city's first hospital was established in a house on the street in 1767. In 1790, the Ancient Order of Foresters was founded at the Crown Inn on the street, although the building was demolished in 1935. [5] In the 19th century, the Kirkgate Market was constructed at the city centre end of the street, while a railway line was built, spanning ...
Leeds is the eleventh-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrollment [10] and receives over 67,000 undergraduate applications per year, making it the fifth-most popular university (behind Manchester, Edinburgh, University College London and King's College London) in the UK by volume of applications. [11] Leeds had an income of £ ...
Leeds City Museum, originally established in 1819, reopened in 2008 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is housed in the former Mechanics' Institute built by Cuthbert Brodrick, in Cookridge Street (now Millennium Square ). It is one of nine sites in the Leeds Museums & Galleries group. Admission to the museum is free of charge.
Gildersome was an urban district, established in 1894. In 1937 it was absorbed into the Municipal Borough of Morley. In 1974 the borough was abolished and combined with neighbouring authorities in the City of Leeds. Although the village is still classed as part of the Morley urban area in the census, it is technically separate, and is not ...
Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a large urban park situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west, Oakwood to the south and the A6120 outer ring road to the north. It covers more than 700 acres (2.8 km 2) of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens which are owned by decree [of ...