Leeds

To Manchester's northeast is Leeds, at an old ford over the Aire. The metropolitan population of 2 million¹ also includes the city of Bradford, famous for Saltaire, a preserved 19th century workers' village that is honored as a World Heritage Site. The tallest building in Leeds is the 30 story Bridgewater Place, a modern tower with one curved end.

External references

Saltaire buildings along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. world-gazetteer.com, 2010 calculations, accessed 6/15/2011. Estimate for 2000 is a crude interpolation between 1991 and 2011.