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Welcome to Relocate to Leeds.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Aire and is the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan district.

Facts About Leeds


  • Population 719,000 the second largest of any Metropolitan District in England

  • A multi-cultural city home to more than 75 different nationalities

  • Residents rate living in Leeds highly, with 91 per cent of people stating that the city provides a great quality of life (Leeds City Image Survey 2003)

  • A separate national survey has crowned Leeds the 'Best Place in Britain to Live' (The Independent 2004/5), revealing that 65 per cent of 15-35 year olds living in the city have rated public transport, amenities, cleanliness and entertainment as excellent (The Urban Behaviours Study 2004)

  • Leeds city centre has 4.3 million sq ft of retail shops, over two miles of pedestrianised streets and more than 1,000 shops within five miles of the centre

  • Leeds was ranked fourth by Experian in their 2004 survey of the UK's top shopping destinations

  • Leeds shopping will be given a further boost with a 150m redevelopment of the Trinity Quarter, which begins in 2006

  • Over two-thirds of the Leeds district is covered with green belt land and the city centre is less than 20 miles from the Yorkshire Dales National Park

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