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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_English_Dialect_DictionaryThe English Dialect Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   The English Dialect Dictionary Online (EDD Online), a database and software initiated by Manfred Markus at the University of Innsbruck, provided a computerised version of Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary. The work on the project has been going on since 2006.

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   The earliest known use of the noun Leeds is in the 1860s. OED's earliest evidence for Leeds is from 1863, in the writing of William Chaffers, authority on hallmarks and potters' marks.

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   Aug 6, 2024 · Leeds. A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. A village and civil parish of Maidstone borough, Kent, England, the site of Leeds Castle. A number of places in the United States: A city in Jefferson County, St. Clair County and Shelby County, Alabama. A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.

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   At the time of the Norman conquest, Leeds was evidently a purely agricultural domain, of about 1,000 acres (4 km 2) in extent. It was divided into seven manors, held by as many thanes; they possessed six ploughs; there was a priest, and a church, and a mill: its taxable value was six pounds.

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   Oct 29, 2017 · a city in West Yorkshire, England. In the 16th century it began to be an important centre for the production of woollen cloth, and later became a centre of the Industrial Revolution. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal was opened in 1816. It remains an important industrial city.

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   What does Leeds mean?

   • Definition of Leeds from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary a city in West Yorkshire, England. In the 16th century it began to be an important centre for the production of woollen cloth, and later became a centre of the Industrial Revolution. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal was opened in 1816. It remains an important industrial city.

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   Is Leeds a city?

   • Today Leeds is known as one of eight core cities that act as a focus of their respective regions and Leeds is generally regarded as the dominant city of the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire. [ 21 ]

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   What is Leeds known for?

   • The Leeds and Liverpool Canal was opened in 1816. It remains an important industrial city. Its famous buildings include the Town Hall (1853-8), the City Art Gallery (1888) and Armley Mills, a museum of local industrial history. The Royal Armouries Museum opened there in 1996 and Thackray's Medical Museum in 1997.

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   Why is Leeds called Loidis?

   • Loidis, from which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. The settlement certainly existed at the time of the Norman conquest of England and in 1086 was a thriving manor under the overlordship of Ilbert de Lacy.

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   How did Leeds get its name?

   • The name " Leeds " is first attested in the form "Loidis": around 731 Bede mentioned it in book II, chapter 14 of his Historia ecclesiastica, in a discussion of an altar surviving from a church erected by Edwin of Northumbria, located in "...regione quae vocatur Loidis" ('the region known as Loidis').

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   When did Leeds become a city?

   • In 1626, Leeds received its first charter of incorporation from Charles I. The charter, premising that Leeds in the County of York is an ancient and populous town, whose inhabitants are well acquainted with the Art and Mystery of making Woollen Cloths, sets up a governing body of one Alderman, nine Burgesses, and twenty Assistants.

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