Leeds

Leeds

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Population766,399
Leeds is a city 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 Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Bradford Industrial Museum

Bradford Industrial Museum

Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing …

York Gate Garden

York Gate Garden

Leeds Museums Discovery Centre

Leeds Museums Discovery Centre

Leeds Discovery Centre is the purpose-built display storage facility built for Leeds Museums & Galleries in 2007. It was funded …

Leeds Industrial Museum

Leeds Industrial Museum

The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, near Leeds, in West …

Bagshaw Museum

Bagshaw Museum

Bagshaw Museum is a local museum in the town of Batley, West Yorkshire. Situated in Wilton Park, the elaborate Gothic …

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm is a city farm established in 1980 in Meanwood, Leeds, England, which has animals and crops …

National Science and Media Museum

National Science and Media Museum

The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National …

Golden Acre Park

Golden Acre Park

Golden Acre Park is a public park in Bramhope, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (grid reference SE267417), administered by Leeds City …

Kirkstall Abbey (Ruins)

Kirkstall Abbey (Ruins)

Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is …

Temple Newsam House

Temple Newsam House

Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), is a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. …

Northern Ballet

Northern Ballet

Oakwell Hall

Oakwell Hall

Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England. The Grade I listed hall is set in …

Leeds City Museum

Leeds City Museum

Leeds City Museum, established in 1819, is a museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Since 2008 it has been housed …

Royal Armouries

Royal Armouries

The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum that holds the National Collection of Arms …

Thackray Medical Museum

Thackray Medical Museum

The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a museum of the history of medicine adjacent to …

Wakefield Museum

Wakefield Museum

Wakefield Museum is a local museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, north England, covering the history of the city of Wakefield …

Yorkshire Cricket Museum

Yorkshire Cricket Museum

Lotherton Hall

Lotherton Hall

Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a short distance from the A1(M) …

Bolling Hall Museum

Bolling Hall Museum

Bolling Hall is one of the oldest buildings in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is currently used as a museum …

Thwaite Mills Watermill

Thwaite Mills Watermill

Thwaite Mills or Thwaite Watermill is an industrial heritage site in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and …

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