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Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England, built around the River Aire in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the largest settlement in Yorkshire. Its top sights are the Town Hall, Kirkgate Market and the Victoria Quarter arcades, the Royal Armouries Museum, Kirkstall Abbey, Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam.
A small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th, Leeds grew in the 17th and 18th centuries as a centre for producing and trading wool. It became a mill town in the Industrial Revolution, also known for flax, iron foundries, engineering and printing, and was made a city in 1893.
The city has a population of 536,280 and the fourth largest student population in the country, served by five universities. Its railway station is, with Manchester Piccadilly, the busiest in Northern England, and more than 60% of the wider Leeds district is green belt land.
Leeds Town Hall on The Headrow in Leeds, England, was built from 1853 to 1858 to a design by Cuthbert Brodrick and opened by Queen Victoria in 1858. Its baroque clock tower, 68.6 m high, made it the city's tallest building until 1966, and it is now a Grade I listed concert and wedding venue.
Kirkgate Market on Vicar Lane in Leeds, England, is the largest covered market in Europe and a Grade I listed building, with 800 stalls and over 100,000 visitors a week. Building began on the site in 1857, and in 1884 Marks & Spencer was founded here as a penny bazaar.
The Leeds Corn Exchange in Leeds, England, is an oval, domed Grade I listed building designed by Cuthbert Brodrick in the Italianate style and opened in 1864. Its dome was modelled on the Halle aux blés in Paris, and since 2008 it has been a boutique shopping centre for independent retailers.
The Victoria Quarter in Leeds, England, is a Grade II* listed network of restored Victorian and Edwardian shopping arcades between Briggate and Vicar Lane, opened in 1990. Queen Victoria Street is roofed with Brian Clarke's stained glass, once the largest secular stained glass work in the world.
The Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds Dock in Leeds, England, holds the National Collection of Arms and Armour and opened in 1996 in a £42.5 million purpose-built building. Its five original galleries show 5,000 objects, and the Hall of Steel staircase is lined with displays of 2,500 more.
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, England, opened on 3 October 1888, and its collection of 20th-century British art was designated of national importance in 1997. Henry Moore's Reclining Woman: Elbow stands at the entrance, and the entrance hall holds a 1712 marble statue of Queen Anne.
Leeds City Museum in Leeds, England, was founded in 1819 and since 2008 has filled the former Mechanics' Institute on Millennium Square, built from 1865 to 1868 to a design by Cuthbert Brodrick. It is one of eight Leeds Museums & Galleries sites and shows displays from the Leeds Archive.
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills in Leeds, England, fills a Grade II* listed mill built by Benjamin Gott in 1805, once the world's largest woollen mill. Set between the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire, it reopened as a museum in 1982 with textile machinery and railway equipment.
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery north-west of the centre of Leeds, England, set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. Founded around 1152 and closed under Henry VIII, its ruins were painted by J. M. W. Turner, and its gatehouse is now the Abbey House Museum.
Leeds Minster, the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds, stands on the site of the oldest church in Leeds, England, recorded as early as the 7th century. The present Grade I listed Gothic Revival building by Robert Dennis Chantrell was completed in 1841 and became a minster in 2012.
Roundhay Park on the north-east edge of Leeds, England, covers more than 700 acres of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens and draws nearly a million visitors a year. Thomas Nicholson flooded old quarries and coal mines to create its Upper Lake and Waterloo Lake and built a castle folly.
Temple Newsam is a Grade I listed Tudor-Jacobean house to the east of Leeds, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in the house in 1545, and it opened to the public in 1923 and is now run by Leeds Museums and Galleries.
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