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"Leeds is a major city on the River Aire and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 UK census the Leeds Urban Area had a population of 443, 247 while the metropolitan borough had a population of 715, 404 and is one of England's core cities. The name "Leeds" came from "Leodis", which was a name recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources for a Celtic kingdom that survived in the area for a while after the Anglo-Saxon invasion.Leeds has been known since being mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086. Leeds was an agricultural market town in the Middle Ages, and received its first charter in 1207. In the Tudor period Leeds was mainly a merchant town, manufacturing woollen cloths and trading with Europe via the Humber estuary and the population grew from 10, 000 at the end of the seventeenth century to 30, 000 at the end of the eighteenth. At one point nearly half of England\'s total export passed through Leeds. The industrial revolution had resulted in the radical growth of Leeds whose population had risen to over 150, 000 by 1840. The city\'s industrial growth was catalysed by the introduction of the Aire & Calder Navigation in 1699, Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816 and the railway in 1848. In 1893 Leeds had been granted city status. These industries that developed in the industrial revolution had included making machinery for spinning, machine tools, steam engines and gears as well as other industries based on textiles, chemicals and leather and pottery. Coal was extracted on a large scale and the still functioning Middleton Railway, the first commercial railway in the world, transported coal into the centre of Leeds...

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