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Leeds

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About Leeds

Leeds is a city 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. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It was awarded its Royal City Charter by King Charles 1st in 1626 and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries by becoming a major production and trading centre.

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The University of Leeds had a decapitated statue and nobody knew who it was of, until a team worked out who had sculpted it from the signature.

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More facts about Leeds

  1. A Frenchman moved to Leeds and created a working film camera five years before anyone else, pre-Lumiere brothers, made some films around Leeds, and then he disappeared.

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Coordinates: 53.7975, -1.5436

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