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Leeds was mainly a merchant town, manufacturing woollen cloths and trading with Europe via the Humber estuary and the population grew from 10,000 at the end of the seventeenth century to 30,000 at the end of the eighteenth. As a gauge of the importance of the town, by the 1770s Leeds merchants were responsible for 30% of the country's woollen ...
It contained notes on his maps of Scarborough, York and Leeds and also a list of the subscribers. Originally 138 people subscribed to 192 copies of the Leeds plan; only one copy is now accessible, in Leeds City Museum. It has been suggested that Thoresby was instrumental in hiring Cossins, and a copy of the map is kept at the Thoresby Society.
1866 map of Leeds 19th-century Briggate, Leeds. In 1801, 42% of the population of Leeds lived outside the township, in the wider borough. Cholera outbreaks in 1832 and 1849 caused the authorities to address the problems of drainage, sanitation, and water supply. Water was pumped from the River Wharfe, but by 1860 it was too heavily polluted to ...
Leeds, [7] also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley , Garforth , Guiseley , Horsforth , Morley , Otley , Pudsey , Rothwell , Wetherby and Yeadon . [ 8 ]
Fulneck Moravian Chapel. Fulneck Moravian Chapel is a Grade I listed building, making it one of the most architecturally significant buildings in Leeds.In addition to the normal Sunday Service(s), there are monthly concerts by Fulneck resident Dr Simon Lindley on a John Snetzler/Binns organ on the first Thursday of every month.
The following is an outline and topical guide of Leeds: Leeds is a city [a] in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. 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. Coat of Arms of Leeds City Council
An 1881 street map shows the area built up and called The Leylands, and in 1887 the area had a population of 6209. [2] A plan of 1815 shows construction in progress with street names commemorating the victories of Nelson, namely Trafalgar Street and Nile Street.
Leeds Anti-Slavery Association; Leeds City Police; Leeds Civic Trust; Leeds Convention; Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group; Leeds Royal Park; Leeds Rural District; Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens; County Borough of Leeds; List of council high-rise apartment buildings in the City of Leeds; List of Leeds Civic Trust plaques; List of riots ...