26 Facts About Leeds Bradford

1. Leeds Bradford is an important financial center in England and is popular for its high quality of life.

2. Leeds Bradford is one of our favourite cities in the UK and a place we actively keep our investment eye on.

3. Leeds Bradford is home to Leeds Bradford City Football Club who became the first English football club to win the current FA Cup trophy in 1911.

4. Leeds Bradford is home to a number of field hockey clubs that compete in the North Hockey League, Yorkshire Hockey Association League and BUCS leagues.

5. Leeds Bradford United was formed in 1919 and plays at the 37,890-capacity Elland Road Stadium in Beeston.

6. Leeds Bradford has the fourth largest student population in the country, and is therefore one of the UK's hotspots for night-life.

7. Leeds Bradford is home to Phoenix Dance Theatre, who were formed in the Harehills area of the city in 1981, and Northern Ballet Theatre.

8. Leeds Bradford is home to the refurbished Grand Theatre where the only national opera company outside London, Opera North, is based.

9. Leeds Bradford was ranked at number seven, just behind Sheffield, but ahead of Bradford, Manchester and Liverpool.

10. Leeds Bradford is one of the principal hubs of the northern motorway network.

11. Leeds Bradford will introduce a clean air zone from January 2020, which will charge the most polluting buses, coaches HGVs £50 a day to enter the city, while taxis and private hire vehicles which are not clean enough will be charged £12.50 a day.

12. Leeds Bradford is one of only a few UK cities outside of London to have a significant number of high-rise buildings, the 112-metre tower of Bridgewater Place, known as The Dalek, is part of a major office and residential development and the region's tallest building; it can be seen for miles around.

13. In January 2011, Leeds Bradford was named as one of five "cities to watch" in a report published by Centre for Cities.

14. In 2009 Leeds Bradford was the first city outside London to host the Eurogamer Expo.

15. Leeds Bradford has the most diverse economy of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private sector jobs growth of any UK city and has the highest ratio of public to private sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities.

16. City of Leeds Bradford is the local government district covering Leeds, and the local authority is Leeds City Council.

17. Leeds Bradford has a climate that is oceanic, and influenced by the Pennines.

18. On 1 April 1925, the parish of Leeds Bradford was expanded to cover the whole borough.

19. Leeds Bradford was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

20. Leeds Bradford handled one sixth of England's export trade in 1770.

21. Leeds Bradford developed as a market town in the Middle Ages as part of the local agricultural economy.

22. Leeds Bradford has one of the most diverse economies of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city.

23. Leeds Bradford has a large railway station in the City Centre as well as many smaller ones in suburbs.

24. Leeds Bradford used to have a tram system, but this was removed in 1959.

25. Leeds Bradford is a city in the county of West Yorkshire in the centre of England.

26. Leeds Bradford has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flight training.