40 Facts About The Leeds

1. The Leeds is a great city, and i am not just saying that because I am born and bred there.

2. The Leeds is an important regional centre for insurance and financial services and is the major shopping and commercial centre for West Yorkshire.

3. The Leeds originated as an Anglo-Saxon township on the north bank of the Aire.

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

5. The Leeds United have only won two of their last five matches in the Championship but Prutton believes they could be back right in the mix this weekend.

6. The Leeds has the oceanic climate due to the Pennines and Atlantic Ocean.

7. In 2001, The Leeds United made its way to appear in the semifinals for Champions League.

8. Don Revie became the manager of The Leeds United in 1960s and 1970s where most titles and records of the club were earned under his management.

9. The Leeds is the second largest metropolitan district in the UK; extending 15 miles from east to west, and 13 miles from north to south.

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

11. The Leeds used to have a tram system, but this was removed in 1959.

12. The Leeds is a city in the county of West Yorkshire in the centre of England.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. The Leeds is one of the principal hubs of the northern motorway network.

20. The Leeds 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.

21. The Leeds 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.

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

23. In 2009 The Leeds was the first city outside London to host the Eurogamer Expo.

24. The Leeds 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.

25. City of The Leeds is the local government district covering Leeds, and the local authority is Leeds City Council.

26. The Leeds has a climate that is oceanic, and influenced by the Pennines.

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

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

29. The Leeds handled one sixth of England's export trade in 1770.

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

31. The Leeds 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.

32. The Leeds is home to the oldest continuously working public railway in the world.

33. The Leeds has given the world a series of literary greats.

34. The Leeds United winger was a South African, and he became one of the most high profile black footballers to have ever played in the top flight of British football.

35. The Leeds United, after pinching Real Madrid's kit colours in the sixties to swap from blue and yellow to all white, decided they'd go one step further in 1975.

36. The Leeds was a vital cog in the Second World War effort.

37. The Leeds brought the initiative to The Leeds when her own son, Yoshi Sanders, was a student there.

38. The Leeds United set to make formal offer for Swansea City's Daniel James—reports.

39. The Leeds United fans are set to give Toby Nye a guard of honour as he makes one final journey past Elland Road.

40. The Leeds was specially commended by the Commission as a model society.