What is "leeds"

Leeds is a city and local government district in West Yorkshire, England.

Leeds may also refer to:

Leeds was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1903 from parts of Leeds North and Grenville North and Leeds South ridings.

It was initially defined to consist of the county of Leeds, excluding parts included in the electoral district of Brockville.

It 1914, it was redefined to consist of the whole county of Leeds, including the town of Brockville. In 1966, it was redefined to include, in the County of Lanark, in the Townships of North Burgess, North Elmsley and Montague excepting the Village of Merrickville.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton and Leeds—Grenville ridings.

Leeds was a parliamentary borough covering the town of Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885.

The borough returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) until 1868, and then three MPs from 1868 until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 split the borough into five divisions at the 1885 general election.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. Historically in Yorkshire's West Riding, the history of Leeds can be traced to the 5th century when the name referred to a wooded area of the Kingdom of Elmet. The name has been applied to many administrative entities over the centuries. It changed from being the appellation of a small manorial borough in the 13th century, through several incarnations, to being the name attached to the present metropolitan borough. In the 17th and 18th centuries Leeds became a major centre for the production and trading of wool. Then, during the Industrial Revolution, Leeds developed into a major mill town; wool was the dominant industry but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were important. From being a compact market town in the valley of the River Aire in the 16th century Leeds expanded and absorbed the surrounding villages to become a populous urban centre by the mid-20th century. The main built-up area sub-division has a population of 474,632 (2011), and the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of which it is a part which has a population of around 757,700 (2011).

Today, Leeds is ranked as a gamma world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network; and is considered the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area. Leeds is served by four universities, and has the fourth largest student population in the country and has the country's fourth largest urban economy. After London, Leeds is the largest legal centre in the UK, and in 2011 its financial and insurance services industry was worth £2.1 billion, the 4th largest in the UK, with over 30 national and international banks located in the city. It is the leading UK city for telephone delivered banking and related financial services, with over 30 call centres employing around 20,000 people.

Outside of London, Leeds has the third busiest railway station and sixteenth busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers in England. Public transport, rail and road communications networks in the region are focused on Leeds and there are a number of twinning arrangements with towns and cities in other countries. Its assigned role in the Leeds City Region partnership recognises the city's importance to regional economic development, and the second phase of High Speed 2 plans to connect Leeds to London via East Midlands Hub and Sheffield Meadowhall.

Leeds was a European Parliament constituency, centred on Leeds in the West Yorkshire area of England.

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Batley and Morley, Leeds East, Leeds North East, Leeds North West, Leeds South, Leeds South East, Leeds West and Pudsey. In 1984, Batley and Morley, Leeds South and Leeds South West were replaced by Elmet, Leeds Central and Morley and Leeds South.

In 1999, the constituency became part of the much larger Yorkshire and the Humber constituency.

Leeds is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adrian Leeds (born 1952), US-born French journalist
• Alan Leeds (born 1947), American music executive
• Alfred Nicholson Leeds (1847–1917), English amateur paleontologist
• Andrea Leeds (1914–1984), American film actor
• Andrew Leeds (born 1964), Australian rugby footballer
• Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), American anthropologist
• Billy Leeds (1880–1955), Australian rules footballer
• Charles J. Leeds, American politician, Mayor of New Orleans 1874–76
• Doug Leeds (born 1968), American businessman
• Douglas B. Leeds (1947–2011), American businessman
• Edward Leeds (priest) (died 1590), English clergyman
• Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955), English archaeologist, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–45
• Eric Leeds (born 1952), American musician
• Herbert I. Leeds (1900–1954), American film director
• Herbert Leeds (1855–1930), American amateur golfer and golf course architect
• Joanie Leeds (born 1978), American musician
• Lila Leeds (1928–1999), American film actor
• Morris E. Leeds (1869–1952), American electrical engineer
• Peter Leeds (1917–1996), Americana actor
• Peter Leeds (financial analyst), American financial analyst
• Phil Leeds (1916–1998), American film actor
• Stacy Leeds (born 1971), American law professor
• Thelma Leeds (1910–2006), American actor
• Titan Leeds (1699–1738), American almanac publisher