Leeds Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
About Leeds
Leeds (derived from the Celtic area Leodis) was voted the UK's favourite city in Condé Nast's Readers' Traveller Awards 2003. It was a market town that became an industrial powerhouse and grew and developed into a service-based city economy with an attractive, smart centre. Roman Leeds was an important strategic fort, ford and small settlement on theYork-Chesterroad. Recorded in the Domesday book of 1086, it became a thriving market town in the Middle Ages, gaining its town charter from the King in 1207. The medieval city was based around Briggate, Kirkgate, Swinegate and The Calls. (The ending "-gate" came from the old Norse for 'street'.) It was a trading centre in the West Riding of Yorkshire for cloth and wool; from Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield to the port of Hull, east along the
Top Attractions in Leeds
Explore the best things to see and do in Leeds:
- ★Armley Mills
- ★Bramham Park
- ★Church of St John the Baptist
- ★City Square
- ★Corn Exchange
- ★Harewood House
- ★Holbeck Urban Village
- ★Holy Trinity Church
Leeds Travel Guide Sections
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