Bradford

Bradford district in West Yorkshire sits on the edge of the South Pennines and grew around the worsted and woollen textile industry. The city centre contains former mills and warehouses repurposed for offices, galleries and housing, and houses the National Science and Media Museum with collections of photography, film and television. Saltaire, the model village built by Titus Salt beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and contains Salts Mill, which displays a collection of works by David Hockney.

Beyond the urban core, the district includes market towns and moorland. Ilkley sits below Ilkley Moor, known for the Cow and Calf rock outcrop and for walking routes across gritstone; Keighley and Haworth lie along valleys carved by streams and canal routes. Local transport patterns follow river and canal corridors and a network of commuter rail links into Bradford and Leeds. Administration covers a patchwork of suburbs, villages and agricultural land that together form the metropolitan district.