JUNE 12TH, 2010
By ADMINISTRATOR

Leeds

Nursing Homes near Leeds

West Yorkshire

Approximate Population: 443,247

Unlike many cities which enjoyed massive growth in the industrial revolution, Leeds has found a way to evolve and develop in the post-industrial age that today sees it established as one of the most dynamic and thriving cities in the country. With a city population of 457,000 at the last census, and the wider metropolitan district home to just below three-quarters of a million people, Leeds has become one of the eight “core cities” in England.

This resident population is augmented by commuters arriving every working day from dormitory towns and villages in the district around the bustling city, and the numbers using the city-centre at night keep on increasing, enjoying the entertainment and shopping facilities that have seen Leeds dubbed “the Knightsbridge of the North”, its club and bar scene helped by the growing student population from Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan Universities.

There has been a settlement in Leeds since at least Saxon times, when it was a country seat for the kings of Northumbria. Its position by a crossing of the Aire helped the development of commerce, a cloth market for the woollens made in the region growing up at the bridge. When that market moved up the road to Briggate in 1684 the location of the modern settlement was established.