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Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, 8.6 miles west of Leeds, and 13 miles northwest of Wakefield. The City of Bradford metropolitan borough comprises Bradford itself and smaller outlying settlements.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the wool capital of the world.The area's access to a supply of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of Bradford's manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment; Bradford has fine Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.
The textile sector in Bradford fell into a terminal decline from the mid 20th century. Since this time, Bradford has faced similar challenges to the rest of the post-industrial area of Northern England, including deindustrialisation, economic deprivation and housing problems. Since the 1950s Bradford has experienced significant levels of immigration, particularly from Pakistan.
Unusually
for a major city, Bradford is not built on any substantial body of water. The
ford from which it takes its name (Broad-Ford) was a crossing of the stream called
Bradford Beck. The beck rises in the Pennine hills to the west of the city, and
is swelled by tributaries such as Horton Beck, Westbrook, Bowling Beck and Eastbrook.
At the site of the original ford, just below the present Bradford Cathedral, it
turns north, and flows more or less straight towards the River Aire at Shipley.
Bradfordale (or Bradforddale) is a name given by geographers to the valley of
Bradford Beck. It can reasonably be regarded as one of the Yorkshire Dales, though
as the site of a big city, it is often not recognised as such.
The beck's course through the city centre is entirely underground, and was mostly so by the middle of the 19th century. On the 1852 Ordnance Survey map of Bradford it is visible as far as Sun Bridge, at the end of Tyrrell Street, and then again from beside the railway station at the bottom of Kirkgate. On the 1906 Ordnance Survey, it disappears at Tumbling Hill Street, off Thornton Road, and first appears again north of Cape Street, off Valley Road, though there are further culverts as far as Queens Road. This is substantially the position today.Bradford Beck is now a central element of the Alsop plan to regenerate the city centre. The Bowl is an ambitious project to open up the beck and create a huge pool to act as the pivotal point of the new city centre.
The Bradford Canal, built in 1774, took its water from Bradford Beck and its tributaries. This supply was often inadequate to feed the locks, and the polluted state of the canal led to its temporary closure in 1866: the canal was closed in the early 20th century as uneconomic. Like the beck, the canal is about to be rejuvenated in the Alsop plan. 'The Channel' envisages the reopening of the canal and the creation of a new canal-side community.
In past centuries Bradford's location in Bradfordale made communications difficult, except from the north. Nonetheless, Bradford is now well-served by transport systems. Bradford was first connected to the developing turnpike network in 1734, when the first Yorkshire turnpike was built between Manchester and Leeds via Halifax and Bradford. In 1740, the Selby to Halifax road was constructed through Leeds and Bradford. Several more local and long-distance roads were built through the rest of the century.
Today Bradford lies on several trunk roads ; The A650 between Wakefield and Keighley, The A647 to Leeds, The A658 to Harrogate, The A6036 to Halifax
The M606, a spur off the M62 motorway, connects Bradford with the national motorway network. Although it was originally planned to go directly into the city centre, this has never been built and is unlikely now ever to be, as a hotel has been built across the proposed route.
Bradford's oldest building is the cathedral, which for most of its life was a parish church. Few other Medieval buildings have survived apart from Bolling Hall, which has been preserved as a museum.
Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district.
Lister Park (also known as Manningham Park) is a picturesque public park in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. between Manningham, Heaton and Frizinghall. It is situated about a mile outside the city centre on Manningham Lane, the main road between Bradford and Shipley.
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