City of Bradford
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- This article discusses the metropolitan borough and district named the City of Bradford Metropolitan District. For information on the city itself, see Bradford, the district's principal settlement, from which it takes it's name.
| City of Bradford Metropolitan District | |
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| Missing image EnglandBradford.png Bradford | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough, City (1897) |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Ceremonial County: | West Yorkshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 130th 366.42 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Bradford |
| ONS code: | 00CX |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density | Ranked 4th 477,775 1,304 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 78.3% White 18.9% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Missing image Arms-bradford-city.jpg Arms of Bradford City Council Bradford City Council http://www.bradford.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Ann Cryer, Philip Davies, Terry Rooney, Marsha Singh, Gerry Sutcliffe |
The City of Bradford Metropolitan District is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is named after its largest settlement, the city of Bradford.
Places within the borough boundaries (in addition to the Bradford city area itself) include Addingham, Baildon, Bingley, Burley in Wharfedale, Cottingley, Cullingworth, Denholme, Haworth, Ilkley, Keighley, Manningham, Menston, Oakworth, Oxenhope, Queensbury, Saltaire, Shipley, Silsden, Steeton with Eastburn, Thornton and Wilsden.
The northern and western parts of the district are largely rural, with areas of high moorland including the famous Ilkley Moor and Brontë Country.
The current borough boundaries date from April 1, 1974, when the county borough of Bradford was merged with the borough of Keighley, the urban districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district and part of Skipton Rural District.
Parishes
Most of the Bradford city area is still unparished, but there are parish and town councils for most of the outlying towns and villages in the District. At present (November 2004) the following areas are parished:
- Addingham
- Clayton
- Cullingworth
- Denholme
- Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
- Ilkley
- Keighley
- Oxenhope
- Sandy Lane
- Silsden
- Steeton with Eastburn
- Wilsden
- Wrose
For more information
More information about the Bradford District is contained under the Bradford entry. There is also a site called bradfordinfo.com (http://www.bradfordinfo.com/) which has a range of statistical and other information about the District, and includes a Geographic information system accesible from mapsandstats.com (http://www.mapsandstats.com/)
| Districts of England - Yorkshire and the Humber | 
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| Barnsley | Bradford | Calderdale | Craven | Doncaster | East Riding of Yorkshire | Hambleton | Harrogate | Hull | Kirklees | Leeds | North Lincolnshire | North East Lincolnshire | Richmondshire | Rotherham | Ryedale | Scarborough | Selby | Sheffield | Wakefield | York | |
| Administrative counties with multiple districts: North Yorkshire - South Yorkshire - West Yorkshire |