Various areas in Leeds developed different roles in the industrial revolution. There is an Inner Ring Road with part motorway status and an Outer Ring Road. Key sectors include finance, retail, leisure and the visitor economy, construction, manufacturing and the creative and digital industries. Loidis, from which Leeds derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. [8] Brigantian remains have been found in villages and towns in the vicinity of Leeds, and there are Roman remains in nearby settlements, notably at Adel, and at Alwoodley; in the suburb of Headingley a stone coffin was found in 1995 at Beckett's Park which is believed to date from Roman times. Hunslet, based at the John Charles Centre for Sport, play in the Co-Operative Championship One. There is also a direct rail service from Leeds to Manchester Airport. The facility which is now a trading estate and retail park, was situated near Wetherby and like Barnbow featured significant railway facilities. Possibly as a result of the strength of feminist art in Leeds, in November 1984 an exhibition of ceramics by students and staff at Leeds Polytechnic was attacked by a group of feminist activists who destroyed eight sculptures on display which they deemed to be degrading to women. There are many more smaller parks and open spaces scattered around the city, which make up around 21.7% of the city's total area. This was evidently a regional name, but it subsequently occurs in the 1086 Domesday Book denoting a settlement, in the later Old English form Ledes. In 1399, according to the Hardynge Chronicle, the captive Richard II was briefly imprisoned at Leeds, before being transported to another de Lacy property at Pontefract, where he was later executed. The city also hosts the only subsidiary office of the Bank of England in the UK. However, smaller villages, hamlets and rural areas are 'washed over' by the designation. [160] Planning permission for the first phase to be undertaken by Vastint UK was granted in December 2018.[161]. [25], Leeds City Region Enterprise Zone was launched in April 2012 to promote development in four sites along the A63 East Leeds Link Road. The weekly markets were discontinued, and deaths occurred with such startling rapidity that it was impossible to keep pace with them in the parish registers. The Leeds Asian Festival, formerly the Leeds Mela, is held in Roundhay Park. The main Central Library is located on the Headrow in the city centre. The White Rose Way walking trail to Scarborough begins at City Square. Startyour University of Leeds adventure at www.leeds.ac.uk NHS health services are provided by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds Primary Care Trust [282] and Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust,[283][284] which provides mental health services. The nearest official weather recording station is at Bingley, some twenty kilometres away at a higher altitude.[57]. (Bradford, by contrast, was the centre of the worsted cloth trade.) [44] Inner and southern areas of Leeds lie on a layer of coal measure sandstones forming the Yorkshire Coalfield. In addition to other national governmental offices, the city is home to a large Department for Work and Pensions office building located in Quarry Hill, notable[according to whom?] Ralph Thoresby was involved in the establishment of the first covered cloth market, when with others he secured the permission of the 3rd Viscount Irwin, holder of the Manor of Leeds, to erect the White Cloth Hall. It was also the venue of the BBC television programme The Good Old Days. [223] Just next door, The Henry Moore Institute is dedicated to celebrating sculpture. During the Middle Ages, Cistercian monks, such as those at Kirkstall, were involved in sheep farming, and weaving was introduced to West Yorkshire during the reign of Edward III. The city had the third-largest jobs total by local authority area with 480,000 in employment and self-employment at the beginning of 2015. It rapidly went in favour of the assailants, and by four o'clock the Parliamentarian leaders and their troops were in Briggate and Boar Lane, while Savile and others were fleeing for their lives. The northern boundary follows the River Wharfe for several miles (several kilometres), but it crosses the river to include the part of Otley which lies north of the river. It has an economy with large tourism, financial and commercial sectors. [1] (The 1725 map by John Cossins spells it as Leedes. Millennium Square is a venue for large seasonal events such as a Christmas market, gigs and concerts, and citywide parties. ROF Thorp Arch was the main munitions factory in the area at this time. Many now quite insignificant places in Yorkshire had sent members to the House of Commons from a very early period--Malton, Beverley, Northallerton had returned members as far back as 1298; Otley had had two members for centuries. Leeds facilities, schools, general information, West Yorkshire", "Plans for three new Leeds railway stations unveiled", "Everything you should know about the future of public transport in Leeds", "Airport data 2017 - UK Civil Aviation Authority", "How green is your city? [136] During the design and construction of the new road, the project partners, Leeds City Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the Highways Agency,[137] are aiming to secure additional social value benefits including aiming for a minimum of 75% of the costs being spent with local suppliers and SME, 2% with local social enterprises spend and 0.5% with female, black and minority ethnic (BAME) or ex-military personnel owned suppliers. Plans for a parkway station serving Leeds Bradford Airport and two other new stations within the next 20 years were announced in 2016. The city's industrial growth was catalysed by the introduction of the Aire & Calder Navigation in 1699, Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816 and the railways from 1834 onwards; the first being the Leeds and Selby Railway opened on 22 September 1834. The Leeds travel to work area in 2001 included all of the City of Leeds, a northern strip of the City of Bradford, the eastern part of Kirklees, and a section of southern North Yorkshire; it occupies 751 square kilometres (290 sq mi). [115], On 20 October 2016, the newest shopping destination called Victoria Gate opened its doors to the public. [7], Leeds's profile was raised by the 2008-09 discovery of the West Yorkshire Hoard, a small, probably tenth- or eleventh-century treasure hoard of items from the early 7th century onwards, in the Leeds area. Leeds is the largest component of the West Yorkshire Urban Area[42] and is counted by Eurostat as part of the Leeds-Bradford larger urban zone. Leeds was 11th in this rating (excluding London boroughs, 23rd including London boroughs). Though not a very great affair, it settled the question of King or Commons so far as that part of the West Riding was concerned. The new town was laid out along the line of a street, later to be called Briggate, which was wide enough to hold a market, with about thirty burgage plots on either side. 43% of finance sector jobs in the district are contained in Leeds city centre and 44% of those employed in the city centre live more than nine kilometres (5.6 miles) away. The name has also been explained as a derivative of Welsh lloed, meaning simply "a place".[12]. [35], Holbeck and Leeds formed a continuous built-up area by 1858, with Hunslet nearly meeting them. Leeds General Infirmary ("LGI") is a listed building with more recent additions and is in the city centre. The council is composed of 99 councillors, three for each of the district's wards. Abbey House Museum is housed in the former gatehouse of Kirkstall Abbey, and includes walk-through Victorian streets and galleries describing the history of the abbey, childhood, and Victorian Leeds. [100], Manufacturing and distribution accounted for £26m of new property development in the period.[when?]. Bede states in the fourteenth chapter of his Ecclesiastical History, in a discussion of an altar surviving from a church erected by Edwin of Northumbria, that it is located in ...regione quae vocatur Loidis (Latin, "the region which is called Loidis"). The tenant in chief was Ilbert de Lacy to whom William the Conqueror had granted a vast Honour stretching widely across country from Lincolnshire into Lancashire, and whose chief stronghold was at Pontefract Castle, a few miles to the south-east. Learn more. Today, Leeds International Film Festival's International Short Film Competition is named after Louis Le Prince. In the 1940s, there were plans to build an extensive underground system, however these were scuppered by the Second World War. J. M. W. Turner painted numerous scenes in and around the city,[175] and the city was home to one of Britain's largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite Art, owned by Thomas Plint, during the nineteenth century. The fire stations in Leeds are: Cookridge, Gipton, Hunslet, Stanks, Moortown, Stanningley and the "Leeds" fire station (near the city centre, on Kirkstall Road). High Speed 2 Phase Two is planned to connect Leeds to London via East Midlands Hub and Sheffield. West Yorkshire BUA is the UK's fourth-most populous urban area with a reported population of 1.8 million in 2013. Learn more. Donisthorpe's patent for a camera to capture the moving image pre dated Le Prince's by twelve years. Leeds has a well established LGBT+ nightlife scene, predominantly located in the Freedom Quarter on Lower Briggate. [31] This area formed a metropolitan district in the county of West Yorkshire. [184] Partly due to Herbert Read's connection with the University, from 1950 to 1970 the University was the host of one of the first artist-in-residence schemes in Britain, using funding from the then owner of Lund Humphries books, Peter Gregory. There was a fulling mill at Leeds by 1400, and cloth dying may also have been an early centralised activity. is the city's main football club, additional clubs include Guiseley AFC and Farsley Celtic. As well as advocating a radical political agenda, supporting the Suffragettes, the Independent Labour Party and the Fabian Society, and promoting the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Leeds Arts Club was almost unique in Britain as being an exponent of German Expressionist ideas about art and culture. The city has a wealth of sports facilities including the Elland Road football stadium, a host stadium during the 1996 European Football Championship; the Headingley Carnegie Stadiums, adjacent stadia world-famous for both cricket and rugby league and the John Charles Centre for Sport with an Olympic-sized pool in its Aquatics Centre[270] and includes a multi-use stadium. [162] In 2008 Education Leeds, a non-profit company owned by Leeds City Council, provided for 220 primary schools, 39 secondary schools and 6 special inclusive learning centres. Stagecoach Yorkshire provides services to Barnsley. The M1 and M62 intersect to its south and the A1(M) passes to the east. The Leeds extension of the Dales Way follows the Meanwood Valley Trail before it branches off to head towards Ilkley and Windermere. The Leeds Guide was a fortnightly listings magazine, which was established in 1997 and ceased publication in 2012. Prior to 1973 water and sewerage services had been provided by the Leeds Corporation. The Leeds site of the archives service is in the former public library at Sheepscar, Leeds.[288]. Armley Mills Industrial Museum is housed in what was once the world's largest woollen mill,[220] and includes industrial machinery and railway locomotives. Office developments, also traditionally located in the inner area, have expanded south of the River Aire and total 11,000,000 square feet (1,000,000 m2) of space. Leeds Hockey Club Men's 1s gained promotion at the end of the 2016/2017 season to become Leeds's first hockey team competing in a National League.[268]. [21] Decline in manufacturing during the 1930s was temporarily reversed by a switch to producing military uniforms and munitions during the Second World War. The main provider is First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire serves routes to the south of the city. [19] Alongside technological advances and industrial expansion, Leeds retained an interest in trading in agricultural commodities, with the Corn Exchange opening in 1864. 70 stores such as Louis Vuitton, Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, Diesel and anchor Harvey Nichols are contained within two iron-wrought Victorian arcades, and a new arcade formed by arcading Queen Victoria Street with the largest expanse of stained glass in Britain. The airport is the tenth busiest airport outside London,[153] with scheduled services running to London Heathrow, Amsterdam, Dublin and Barcelona. Leeds was one of a number of local authorities to try the three-tier system with first, middle and secondary schools. Coal was extracted on a large scale and the still functioning Middleton Railway, the first successful commercial steam locomotive railway in the world, transported coal into the centre of Leeds. Leeds parish in Skyrack was the most important of these holdings. Michael Paraskos, 'Herbert Read and Leeds', in Benedict Read and David Thistlewood. Notable non-conformist chapels include the Salem Chapel, dating back to 1791 and notably the birthplace of Leeds United Football Club in 1919.[124][125]. Leeds has the second-highest population of any local authority district in the UK (after Birmingham), and the second-greatest area of any English metropolitan district (after Doncaster), extending 15 miles (24 km) from east to west, and 13 miles (21 km) from north to south. Leeds's Jewish community is the third-largest in the United Kingdom, after London and Greater Manchester. Capita Group, KPMG, Direct Line, Aviva, Yorkshire Building Society, BT Group, Telefónica Europe (O2 Ltd) and TD Waterhouse all also have a considerable presence in the city.[98]. The 13,500-seater stadium is rapidly becoming the city's number one venue for live music, indoor sports and many other events. [4], Eighteen years after the granting of the charter of incorporation, Leeds joined with other towns in the neighbourhood in a Memorial to the King wherein he was besought to settle his differences with the rebellious Parliament. Also Yorkshire Tiger operates Flying Tiger services to Leeds Bradford Airport. Before the First World War Leeds was the home of an unusual modernist arts organisation, called the Leeds Arts Club, founded by Alfred Orage, which lasted from 1903 to 1923. Notable members included Jacob Kramer, Herbert Read, Frank Rutter and Michael Sadler. Other festivals include Transform and Thought Bubble. [114], On 21 March 2013, a large shopping and leisure complex called Trinity Leeds opened in the city centre. [215] The library also plans to open a facility in Leeds City Centre, potentially in the Grade I listed Temple Works in the South Bank area. The clean air zone was originally proposed in 2018 after government ordered the council to come up with ways to lower the air pollution in the city, which causes around 29,000 premature deaths in the UK. The court previously sat only in London. It is estimated that around 3,000 Sikhs in Leeds take part in this annual event. Regional television and radio stations have bases in the city: BBC Television and ITV both have regional studios and broadcasting centres in Leeds, in addition to Channel 4 having recently[when?] [211], Leeds has produced many writers of note, including celebrated author and playwright Alan Bennett. Elections are held three years out of four, on the first Thursday of May. [196] The Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, established in 1963 by Fanny Waterman and Marion Stein, has been held in the city every three years since 1963 and has launched the careers of many major concert pianists. [9] It seems likely that the Anglo-Saxon settlement consisted largely of an ecclesiastical site, a ford over the River Aire, and Kirkgate. But it was not until 1654 that Adam Baynes was returned to sit at Westminster; he was returned again two years later with Francis Allanson as a second member. [4], The Tudor period was a time of transition for Leeds, from a relatively mean settlement to a solid cloth-trading town. It reverted to the two-tier system in 1992. [241][242][243], Pink Floyd's popular second single "See Emily Play" was written in Leeds in 1967 after a gig in the old Leeds City College Technology Campus, then known as Kitson College. Opening in 1997, the centre has over 100 high street stores anchored by Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Primark and Sainsbury's. Leeds currently has the third busiest railway station,[148] outside London. [99] The largest sub-sectors are engineering, printing and publishing, food and drink, chemicals and medical technology. In the iconic building, they host a year-round changing programme of historical, modern and contemporary exhibitions presenting sculpture from across the world. There was the old settlement around the parish church, the newly founded borough, the manor house and mill to the west and the town fields at Burmantofts (borough men's tofts). [91] In the period from 1999 to 2008 £2.5bn of property development was undertaken in central Leeds; of which £711m has been offices, £265m retail, £389m leisure and £794m housing. In 1470, it was obscure enough to be described as being "near to Rothwell", which in the fifteenth century had the rights of a market town. [72] According to figures from the 2011 UK Census, 85.0% of the population was White (81.1% White British, 0.9% White Irish, 0.1% Gypsy or Irish Traveller, 2.9% Other White), 2.7% of mixed race (1.2% White and Black Caribbean, 0.3% White and Black African, 0.7% White and Asian, 0.5% Other Mixed), 7.7% Asian (2.1% Indian, 3.0% Pakistani, 0.6% Bangladeshi, 0.8% Chinese, 1.2% Other Asian), 3.5% Black (2.0% African, 0.9% Caribbean, 0.6% Other Black), 0.5% Arab and 0.6% of other ethnic heritage. The new hall opened on 22 May 1711 (It lasted for 65 years before being removed to a new site in The Calls; by the mid-19th century it was taking place in a dedicated trading hall.) Bede's account indicates activity in the vicinity of Leeds, though not necessarily near the town as it is now known: his unidentified place-name Campodonum might refer to an important place in the area; and one Abbot Thrythwulf had a monastery nearby in Bede's time, though it did not last long into the medieval period. In 2009 Leeds was the first city outside London to host the Eurogamer Expo. BBC Radio Leeds, Radio Aire, Greatest Hits Radio, Capital Yorkshire, Heart Yorkshire and Yorkshire Radio broadcast from the city. Leeds is located 169 miles (272 km) north-northwest of London,[41] on the valley of the River Aire in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. There are currently no operational wind farms in Leeds, but a planning application by Banks Renewables Ltd for five turbines at Hook Moor near Micklefield was approved in 2011.[281]. Leeds was subinfeudated – along with much other land in Yorkshire, by the de Lacy family to the Paynel family; Ralph Paynel is mentioned often in the Domesday entries. [82], The majority of people in Leeds identify themselves as Christian. In 1626, Leeds received its first charter of incorporation from Charles I. This museum also shows the first known moving pictures in the world which were taken in the city, by Louis Le Prince, of a Roundhay Garden Scene and of Leeds Bridge in 1888. The force has five policing districts covering the West Yorkshire area, one of which covers Leeds. The population was small in 1207 and remained scanty for a long time afterwards. [49] Aside from the built up area of Leeds itself, there are a number of suburbs and exurbs within the district. Others include Sheffield, Bradford and York. Other NHS hospitals are Chapel Allerton Hospital, Seacroft Hospital, Wharfedale Hospital in Otley, and Leeds Dental Institute. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Leeds prospered and expanded as a centre of the woollen industry and it continued to expand rapidly in the Industrial Revolution. Leeds has the third-largest jobs total by local authority area, with 480,000 in employment and self-employment at the beginning of 2015. [12] At the time of the Norman conquest, Leeds was evidently a purely agricultural domain, of about 1,000 acres (4 km2) in extent. Their attempts to redefine what art education should mean in the post-Second World War period led the artist Patrick Heron to claim in 1971 in The Guardian newspaper that "Leeds is the most influential art school in Europe since the Bauhaus". They play in National League 1 having been relegated from RFU Championship at the end of the 2019–20 season. [201], Leeds Pride is an annual LGBT+ festival held since 2006 supported by the city council and local business. Many developments boasting luxurious penthouse apartments have been built close to the city centre. It is housed in a former workhouse next to St James's Hospital. Average July and August daytime highs exceed 22 °C (72 °F) (a value comparable to South East England) in a small area just to the south east of the city centre,[60][61] where the elevation declines to under 20 metres (66 feet). Improvement commissioners were set up in 1755 for paving, lighting, and cleansing of the main streets, including Briggate and further powers were added in 1790 to improve the water supply. [95] Leeds is also the UK's third-largest manufacturing centre with around 1,800 firms and 39,000 employees; Leeds manufacturing firms account for 8.8% of total employment in the city and is worth over £7 billion to the local economy. The Thackray Museum is a museum of the history of medicine, featuring topics such as Victorian public health, pre-anaesthesia surgery, and safety in childbirth. With around 1,800 firms and 39,000 employees, Leeds manufacturing firms account for 8.8% of total employment in the city. For other uses, see. [261] A privately owned television station: Leeds Television is run by volunteers and supported by professionals in the media industry. West Yorkshire does not have a county council, so Leeds City Council is the primary provider of local government services for the city. Free publications include the Leeds Weekly News, produced by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in four geographic versions and distributed to households in the main urban area of the city,[259] and the regional version of Metro which is distributed on buses and at railway stations. [181], This radicalism continued into the 1970s when the higher education component of Leeds College of Art was split from the college to form the nucleus of the new multidisciplinary Leeds Polytechnic, now called Leeds Beckett University. The Victoria Quarter is notable for its high-end luxury retailers and impressive architecture. It has been reported that the defending Premier League champions are admirers of the English striker. [139], Air quality in Leeds has been declared as being "unsafe" by the World Health Organization. Min (City of Leeds) at points where district boundary crosses Rivers Aire and Wharfe in extreme east. [109], Key government departments and organisations in Leeds include the Department for Work and Pensions, with over 3,000 staff, the DHSC, with over 800 staff, HM Revenue and Customs with over 1,200 staff and the British Library with 1,100 staff.[108]. [92] Tertiary industries such as retail, call centres, offices and media have contributed to a high rate of economic growth. The track entered a team in the 1931 Northern league. Briggate is the main shopping street where one can find many well-known British High Street stores, including Marks & Spencer, House of Fraser, Debenhams, Topshop, Costa Coffee and Harvey Nichols. Cholera outbreaks in 1832 and 1849 caused the authorities to address the problems of drainage, sanitation, and water supply. The town itself was small—it was probably confined within a triangle formed on the lines of the present lower Briggate, Kirkgate, and the River Aire, with the parish church at one angle somewhere about, perhaps on, the site of the modern one. [4], The Puritan regime followed on the first successes of the Parliamentarians, and Leeds saw two Puritan ministers placed in the parish church and the new church of St. John. [150], The city and metropolitan borough of Leeds is served by 16 railway stations. [65], Over 60% of the Leeds district is green belt land and it surrounds the settlement, preventing further sprawl towards nearby communities. The city centre has a large pedestrian zone. There were two significant foci to the settlement; the area around the parish church and the main manorial landholding half a mile to the west of the church. J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, lived and taught in Leeds from 1921 to 1925. Various Buddhist traditions are represented in Leeds,[279] including: Soka Gakkai[citation needed], Theravada, Tibetan, Triratna Buddhist Community and Zen. [83] Mosques can be found throughout the city, serving Muslim communities in Chapeltown, Harehills, Hyde Park and parts of Beeston. In 1583 the town bought the advowson of the parish church from its then possessor, Oliver Darnley, for £130, and henceforth the successive vicars were chosen by a body of trustees—the most notably successful experiment in popular election which has ever been known in the National Church. It is the headquarters for First Direct and Yorkshire Bank, and has large Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander operations. The proportion of Muslims in Leeds is slightly above average for the country (5.4% as of 2011). Otley RUFC are a rugby union club based to the north of the city and compete in National League 2 North, whilst Morley RFC, located in Morley currently play in National Division Three North. 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