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Jury's Inn 3 star hotel in Leeds England. This new inn has an unparalleled central location on the banks of the River Aire in the heart of Brewery Wharf, a major new five-acre Leeds city-centre development. Travel to Leeds railway station and stay at the nearby Jurys Inn to discover a little of this exciting city.
What to See at Leeds: The variety of food on offer in Leeds is so incredible you won’t know what to eat first. Wherever you go in Yorkshire, you'll soon discover that great restaurants, cosy pubs and friendly tea shops abound. But nowhere in the county is quite like Leeds. The city is filled to bursting with great places to eat, with options that cover everything from coffee and cake to fine dining and gastronomic miracles, and all of it within easy reach. You could eat every course of your dinner in a different restaurant with little difficulty. But it's not just the concentration of quality places to eat that makes Leeds so remarkable, it's the variety. Food from every corner of the globe is available somewhere in the city. Sushi and sake is on offer across the street from champagne and smoked salmon, and a gourmet burger with a beer is just a minute's walk from spicy tapas and Brazilian cachaca. Wherever you choose to eat out in Leeds, be it Michelin-starred dining at Pool Court on The Calls, linguini at the impossibly lavish Bibis on Criterion Place, or the best vegetarian curry ever at Hansa's on North Lane. When it comes to exploring your artistic side, there's no better place, than Leeds to find inspiration. A hotbed of burgeoning talent and a city rich in creative heritage, Leeds is a place that plays host to, as well as produces, national and international talent. It's also a great mix of the old and new, with experimental new companies sitting alongside old style music halls and artistic greats. Opera North brings to the city 27 years of experience in producing entertaining and exciting work that breathes new life into classics. Phoenix Dance Theatre and Northern Ballet Theatre dominate the city's dance scene, each proving to be leaders in contemporary dance and ballet both throughout the region and the UK as a whole. As well as enjoying success on the Leeds stage, the companies tour their work to venues all around the country and abroad. Leeds also boasts a wide range of smaller venues, from North Street Gallery in the Northern Quarter, to the HiFi Club, the setting for a great number of jazz and world gigs throughout the year. When it comes to grand-scale arts and culture, Leeds shows it can compete with any of the big cities in the country. The West Yorkshire Playhouse makes sure the city is well-known for its theatre, with a programme of self-produced plays and international work, along with regional and grass-roots drama. Leeds International Concert season brings the world's finest musicians to the city, transforming the Town Hall into one of the city's most valuable concert venues. There's always a festival or two to keep the arts scene in Leeds buzzing too: Situation Leeds, an annual visual arts festival, Fuse Leeds, an eclectic celebration of contemporary and classical music, and the Leeds International Film Festival have been some of the city's biggest successes in recent years. It is also a great city for nurturing new talent. Many of the universities and colleges in the city showcase work from students and young people - classical recitals, theatre, art exhibitions and dance performances - all open to the general public.
Early History of Leeds: 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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