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Leeds
is a city and metropolitan borough
in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001
Leeds' main urban subdivision had a
population of 443,247, while the
entire city had a population of
770,800 (2008 est.). Leeds is the
cultural, financial and commercial
heart of the wider West Yorkshire
Urban Area, which at the 2001 census
had a population of 1.5 million, and
the Leeds city region, an economic
area with Leeds at its core, had a
population of 2.9 million. Leeds is
the UK's largest centre for
business, legal, and financial
services outside London,and
according to the most recent Office
for National Statistics estimates,
Leeds is the fastest growing city in
the UK.
Historically a part of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, Leeds can trace
its recorded history to fifth
century when the Kingdom of Elmet
was covered by the forest of "Loidis",
the origin of the name Leeds. The
name has been applied to many
administrative entities over the
centuries. It changed from being the
appellation of a small manorial
borough, in the thirteenth century,
through several reincarnations, to
being the name attached to the
present metropolitan borough. In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Leeds became a major centre for the
production and trading of wool.
Then, during the Industrial
Revolution, Leeds developed into a
major industrial centre; wool was
still the dominant industry but
flax, engineering, iron foundries,
printing and other industries were
important. From being a compact
market town in the valley of the
River Aire in the sixteenth century
Leeds expanded and absorbed the
surrounding villages to become a
populous urban centre by the mid
twentieth century.
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