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as such we are able to offer you the chance to date
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Bradford is a local government
district of West Yorkshire, England with the status of a city and
metropolitan borough. It is named after its largest settlement,
Bradford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of
Keighley, Shipley, Bingley and Ilkley. Bradford has a population of
497,400, making it the fourth-most populous metropolitan district
and the sixth-most populous local authority district in the UK. It
forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in
2001 had a population of 1.5 million and the city is part of the
Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), the third largest in the UK
after London and Manchester.
The city is situated on the edge of the Pennines, and is bounded to
the east by the City of Leeds, the south east by the Metropolitan
Borough of Kirklees and the south west by the Metropolitan Borough
of Calderdale. The Pendle borough of Lancashire lies to the west,
whilst the Craven and Harrogate boroughs of North Yorkshire lie to
the north west and north east of the city. Bradford, the urban core
is the 11th largest settlement in England, and the contiguous urban
area to the north which includes the towns of Shipley and Bingley is
also heavily populated. The spa town of Ilkley lies further north,
whilst the town of Keighley lies to the west. Roughly two thirds of
the district is rural, with an environment varying from moorlands in
the north and west, to valleys and floodplains formed by the river
systems that flow throughout the district.
The City of Bradford has a large number of interesting and
architecturally important buildings, mostly constructed from local
stone, with 5,500 listed buildings and 57 conservation areas. The
model village of Saltaire has also been listed as a World Heritage
Site. Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an
international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. 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. However, Bradford has faced similar
challenges to the rest of the post-industrial area of Northern
England, including deindustrialisation, housing problems, social
unrest and serious economic deprivation.
Since the 1950s Bradford has experienced significant levels of
immigration, particularly from Pakistan. Bradford has the second
highest proportion of Muslims in England and Wales outside London.
An estimated 101,967 people of South Asian origin reside in the
city, representing around 20.5% of the city's population, with this
figure projected to rise to 28% by 2011. |
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