LEEDS a Major City in the UK

Leeds:

A major city in West Yorkshire. 

2nd biggest metropolitan after Birmingham

200m square. 

Centre for arts- number of music and art galleries. 

Population has risen 10% in last decade- 800,000

Economy performing well compared to Hull and Bradford. 

Timeline:

Began as a Saon village

Grew in Medieval times- many roads built and we still use them today.

Early wealth from wool industry

1600s- grew along the River Aire.

Fought over during the civil war. 

Leeds-Liverpool canal completed in 1816. 

Population

1850- population was 100,000.  

Population has seen as overall upward trend- immigration and natural increase. 

1801- 94,421, 2011 population in 751,500. 

Decline in 1981,

Population remains at 715,000-716000 in 1991-2001

Immigration

1950s- immigrants from Commonwealth- Carribean.

1800s- Irish, mid 1900s more Irish- over 30,000

WW2- Hungarian and Ukaranian moved to inner-city.

2004- expansion of EU refugees from Lithuania and Poland came. 

Net migration 2013 17,000

Ethnnicity:

Majority white, then Asian, then Black, then mixed race, then other, then Arab.  

Life in Leeds

Sport: Tour de France 2014, football, 2 rugby teams, Home of Yorkshire Cricket team.

New Buildings: council build affordable housing, city centre dramatically changed, redevelopment has happened on a large scale, new buildings along waterfront and canal basin.

Industrial importance and major…