Parish Noticeboard Company In Bradford, West Yorkshire

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is governed by a metropolitan borough named after the city, the wider county has devolved powers. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 census; the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately 9 miles (14 km) to the east. The borough had a population of 546,412, making it the 7th most populous district in England.

Historically allocation of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city grew in the 19th century as an international middle of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and along with the prehistoric industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the “wool capital of the world”; this in approach gave rise to the nicknames “Woolopolis” and “Wool City”. Lying in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, the area’s admission to supplies of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the increase of a manufacturing base, which, as textile produce grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment. There is a large amount of listed Victorian architecture in the city including the grand Italianate city hall. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since a 1974 reform, the city limits have been within the current wider borough.