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Bradford: Area, History and Background
Riding are well acquainted with the United Kingdom, its cities and towns.
Below is some historic, cultural and background information about the area of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
- The City of Bradford is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
- It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, 8.6 miles (13.8 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (25.7 km) northwest of Wakefield.
- Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897.
- Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
- Bradford has a population of 293,717,making it the thirteenth-most populous city in the UK.
- It forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million.
- Bradford is part of the Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), the third largest in the UK after London and Manchester.
- Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool.
- Bradford was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world".
- It has fine Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.
- Bradford has emerged as a tourist destination with attractions such as the National Media Museum and Cartwright Hall.
- It has faced similar challenges to the rest of the post-industrial area of Northern England, including deindustrialisation, housing problems, social unrest and serious economic deprivation.
- Since the 1950s Bradford has experienced significant levels of immigration, particularly from Kashmir.
- It has the second highest proportion of Muslims in England and Wales outside London.
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