Skip to main content Skip to Search Box

Definition: Leeds from Philip's Encyclopedia

City and county district on the River Aire, West Yorkshire, N England. Founded in Roman times, it forms part of one of England's major industrial regions. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Leeds was famous for its cloth factories and it remains the centre of England's wholesale clothing trade. Leeds has two universities (1904, 1992). Industries: aircraft components, textile machinery, engineering, chemicals, plastics, furniture, paper and printing. Pop. (2001) 715,404.


Leeds

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, 40 km/25 mi southwest of York, on the River Aire; population (2001) 443,250; metropolitan area 715,400. Industries include engineering, printing, chemicals, glass, woollens, clothing, plastics, paper, metal goods, and leather goods. Notable buildings include the Town Hall (1858) designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the University of Leeds (1904), the Leeds City Art Gallery (1888), Temple Newsam House (early 16th century, altered in about 1630), and the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall (1147). It is a centre of communications where road, rail, and canals (to Liverpool and Goole) meet. Opera North is based here. The Leeds Music Festival and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition are held here every three years. The City of Leeds Open Brass Band Championships take place each May. The Royal Armouries Museum opened in 1996, housing a national collection of arms and armour formerly in the White Tower at the Tower of London. …
2,712 results

Full text Article Leeds

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, 40 km/25 mi southwest of York, on the River Aire; population (2001) 443,250; metropolitan area 715,400. Industries include engineering, printing, chemicals, glass, woollens, clothing, plastics, paper, metal goods, and leather…
| 1,105 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
city and metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 445,242), N central England, on the Aire River. It lies between one of England's leading manufacturing regions on the west and south and an agricultural region on the north and east. The city is a communications, financial, and regional government center and…
| 222 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds.

From The Oxford Companion to British History
The earliest mention of Leeds is in Bede's Ecclesiastical History as the region of Loidis in the 7th cent. The derivation of the name is unclear. It is mentioned in *Domesday but not as a place of particular importance. But by 1207 it had been granted a charter by the lord of the manor and it…
| 401 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City and metropolitan borough (pop., 2001: 715,404), metropolitan county of West Yorkshire , historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies along the River Aire, northeast of Manchester . It originated as an Anglo-Saxon township and was incorporated as a city in 1626, becoming an early centre of the…
| 116 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English politician who served as lord treasurer and chief minister to Charles II 1673–79, and increased the king's revenues. As a strong supporter of an independent Church of England, he opposed the pro-Catholic policies of Charles and his successor James II, and was instrumental in arranging the…
| 188 words
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds International Film Festival

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is one of the most important public film events in the United Kingdom. Boasting a diverse panorama of works that reach beyond the realm of mainstream cinema, the LIFF was founded in 1987 and maintains a reputation for innovative programming. The festival…
| 198 words
Key concepts:
Vigilate! - Watch ye!
Sir CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY LEEDS , 8th Baronet , only child of late Maj Geoffrey Hugh Anthony Leeds, yr brother of 6th Baronet; b 31 Aug 1935; s his cousin, Sir GEORGE GRAHAM MORTIMER , 1983; ed King's Sch, Bruton, Lond Univ (BScEcon), and Univ of S California (MA); Asso Prof Univ of Nancy 1988–2000, …
| 879 words , 1 image
Key concepts:
KENNETH JOHN WOOLMER , son of Joseph William Woolmer, b 25 April 1940; ed Kettering Gram Sch, and Leeds Univ (BA 19—), Research Fell, Univ of West Indies 1961–62; Teacher, Friern Rd Secondary Modern Sch, London 1963; Lecturer, Univ of Leeds (Economics) 1963–66, Univ of Ahmadu Bello, Nigeria 1966–68, …
| 237 words
Key concepts:
MILNER OF LEEDS, BARON (Milner) (Baron UK 1951)
RICHARD JAMES MILNER , 3rd Baron; b 16 May 1959; s 2003; ed Charterhouse, and Surrey Univ (BSc); Freeman City of London 1988; Liveryman Clothworkers' Co 1988: m 1988, Margaret Christine, yst da of Gerald Francis Voisin, of Jersey, Channel Isles, and has issue. Arms — Gules on a chevron ermine…
| 464 words , 1 image
Key concepts:

Full text Article Leeds

From Philip's Encyclopedia
| 74 words
Key concepts:
Mind Map

Stack overflow
More Library Resources