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J. M. W. Turner's 1816 painting of Leeds, from Beeston Hill.At the left-hand edge is Marshall's Mill, in the centre is Trinity Church, and further to the right, through the smoke, is the tower of Leeds Parish Church, now Leeds Minster.
Northern Ireland Paddies, Huns (sectarian offensive term for pro-British Unionists), Taigs (sectarian offensive term for pro-Irish Nationalists) North Shields Cods Heeds, Fish Nabbers [citation needed] North Wales Gogs [68] Northwich Salt Boys (from Northwich Victoria F.C.) Norwich Nodgies, Canaries, Budgies (the football club colours are green ...
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman).
The rich fruit growing country to the north-east of the city of Armagh is known as the "Orchard of Ireland". [2] [8] (The local electoral district in that part of Armagh is called "The Orchard".) [9]) Armagh : The Cathedral County [2] [3] [10] The Primates of All Ireland's seats (both Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic) are in the city of ...
In modern Irish it is called Laighin or Cúige Laighean. Ulster, derived from Irish: Ulaidh + Old Norse staðr, meaning "land of the Ulaidh". In modern Irish it is called Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh. In Irish the provinces are known as cúigí, the singular of which is cúige. The word cúige originally meant "a fifth", as in one-fifth part of Ireland.
List of people from Leeds is a list of notable people from the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes people from the historic settlement , and the wider metropolitan borough , and thus may include people from Horsforth , Morley , Pudsey , Otley and Wetherby and other areas of the city.
Leeds is a city [a] 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.
Loiner could derive from the name Loidis (in use by the eighth century for the district around modern-day Leeds). [ 2 ] Another explanation says that in the 19th century there were many yards and closes around Briggate whose back entrances were known as Low Ins or Loins, hence Loiner.