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Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England, in the eastern foothills of the Pennines about 14 km west of Leeds. Once the wool capital of the world, it is known for its Victorian architecture, including the Italianate City Hall and the Wool Exchange, the National Science and Media Museum and the World Heritage village of Saltaire nearby.
Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847 and received a city charter in 1897. It grew in the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool, and as one of the earliest industrialised settlements it earned the nicknames Woolopolis and Wool City. Its mills declined from the mid-20th century.
The city had 352,317 people in the 2021 census, and the wider City of Bradford district had 546,976. Bradford is a tourist destination with a strong film and media heritage, and its civic buildings, mills and merchants' warehouses in Little Germany recall the wealth of the wool trade.
Bradford City Hall on Centenary Square is a Grade I listed Victorian town hall with a distinctive clock tower. Designed by the local firm Lockwood and Mawson and built at a cost of £100,000, it opened on 9 September 1873 and was extended in 1909 and again in 1914 with a marble staircase.
City Park is a public space around City Hall in the centre of Bradford. Its mirror pool, opened on 24 March 2012, has the highest fountain in any British city, shooting water up to 30 m high, and in 2012 the Academy of Urbanism named City Park the best place in the UK and Ireland.
The Wool Exchange in central Bradford is a Grade I listed wool-trading hall built between 1864 and 1867 in Venetian Gothic style by Lockwood and Mawson, its foundation stone laid by Lord Palmerston. Its grandeur reflects the wealth of the wool trade, and it now houses a bookshop and cafe.
Bradford Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St Peter, stands on a site in Bradford used for Christian worship since the 7th century. The present church was completed in 1458, its Perpendicular tower was added in 1508, and it became a cathedral in 1919. It is a Grade I listed building.
The National Science and Media Museum in central Bradford is part of the Science Museum Group, with seven floors of galleries on photography, television, animation, video games and the science of light and sound. Entry is free, and its cinemas include Europe's first IMAX screen, opened in 1983.
Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery of Bradford, in Lister Park, Manningham, about a mile from the city centre. Paid for by a £40,000 gift from Samuel Lister and opened in 1904, the Baroque building shows works from Old Masters to 20th-century British art, plus contemporary South Asian art.
Bolling Hall in East Bowling, about a mile from the centre of Bradford, is one of the city's oldest buildings and has been a museum since 1915. Its earliest part is a 14th-century tower, it was a Royalist base during the 1643 siege of Bradford, and it displays a death mask of Oliver Cromwell.
The Alhambra Theatre in Bradford, named after the Alhambra palace in Granada, was built for the impresario Francis Laidler and opened on 18 March 1914. Its domed turret with paired Corinthian columns is a landmark on the city skyline, and its main house seats 1,456 for large touring shows.
Lister Park, also called Manningham Park, is one of the largest parks in Bradford, about a mile from the city centre on Manningham Lane. The city bought the land from the mill owner Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Bradford's Great Exhibition was held here in 1904, and the park holds Cartwright Hall.
Lister Mills, also known as Manningham Mills, in Bradford was once the largest silk factory in the world. Completed in 1873 for Samuel Cunliffe Lister in the Italianate style, it has 27 acres of floor space and a chimney 76 m high that can be seen from most parts of the city.
Little Germany is a quarter of central Bradford lined with grand Italianate warehouses built from 1855 by merchants from mainland Europe, many of them Jewish, to store and sell textiles. Caspian House on East Parade, built in 1873, was the warehouse of the father of the composer Frederick Delius.
Saltaire is a Victorian model village in Shipley, outside the city of Bradford but within the wider Bradford district, built from 1851 to 1871 by Sir Titus Salt for his mill workers. Its huge Salts Mill now shows works by David Hockney, and the whole village is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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