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It was incorporated by Charles I. in 1626. About a fifth of the population was carried off by the plague in 1644. Besides the woollen mfrs., with their immense variety of fabrics, Leeds carries on nearly all the employments common to a large industrial town.
In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described West Riding like this: Yorkshire, West-Riding, in W. and SW. of co.; area, 1,768,380 ac., pop. 2,175,314. The surface rises towards the W. and NW., reaching in Whernside Mountain an alt. of 2414 ft.
Leeds's profile was raised by the 2008-09 discovery of the West Yorkshire Hoard, a small, probably tenth- or eleventh-century treasure hoard of items from the early 7th century onwards, in the Leeds area.
The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974.
When they arrived in the county of Yorkshire, they divided it into 'ridings'. Leeds was part of what was known as the Skyrack wapentake. It's believed that a Viking settlement existed in Armley, although no evidence has been found to support this theory.
Leeds, created a city 13 Feb., 1893, is an ancient parish and market-town, and a still more ancient district, in W.R. Yorkshire, standing in latitude 53— 45' N, longitude 1— 35' W, on both banks of the river Aire, 24 miles SW of York, 42½ NE of Manchester, and 185½ N by W of London; it has a population of 367, 505 (1891), an area of 21 ...
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The Castle of Leeds - It is probable that the Castle of Leeds was erected about this time by the De Lacies of Pontefract. It occupied the site at present (1862) surrounded by Mill Hill, Bishopgate, and the western part of Boar Lane.
