| LEEDS
HISTORY |
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The
first mention of Leeds or Loidis as it was then know was
made c730AD.
Ledes as it became known was written up in the Domesday
Book of 1086. In the early years the centre of the town
existed as a modest cluster of buildings. A new town was
founded in 1207 and the common spelling became Leedes.
Trading well at that time the development of the cloth
and later the woollen markets created the core of the
modern city.
The population grew from 10,000 at the end of the seventeenth
century to 30,000 at the end of the eighteenth. Leeds
became one of the busiest and most prosperous urban centres
in the north of England. With the industrial revolution
the population grew to over 150,000 by 1840, the township
transformed, it became the hub of a network of communications.
As such Leeds was ideally placed to benefit from the development
of an engineering industry and rode the development, making
the city very successful. 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. At its heyday in 1893, Leeds
became a city. |
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