The main picture shows the centre of Leeds in northern England. The city is located in the county of West Yorkshire, on the eastern side of the Pennine Hills. Leeds has a population of more than 700,000 and is the main administrative, financial, retail and cultural centre for the wider Yorkshire region — the area east of the Pennines, north of the Humber estuary and south of the North York Moors (see Figure 1).
Leeds became important in the second half of the nineteenth century as a manufacturing and financial centre for the wool trade and as an industrial centre.
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