Bradford is a lees at the hert o theCity of Bradford, ametropolitan burgh oWast Yorkshire, inNorthren Ingland. It is situatit in the fuithills o thePennines, 8.6 mile (13.8 km) wast oLeeds, an 16 mile (25.7 km) northwast oWakefield. Bradford became amunicipal borough in 1847, an received its chairter as a ceety in 1897. Follaeinlocal govrenment reform in 1974,ceety status wis bestowed upon thewider metropolitan borough.
Bradford haes a population o 293,717, makin it thefowerteent-maist muckle settlement in the UK. Bradford forms pairt o theWast Yorkshire Urban Aurie conurbation which in 2001 haed a population of 1.5 million an is pairt o the Leeds-Bradford Lairger Urban Zone (LUZ), the third lairgest in the UK efterLunnon anManchester, wi an estimatit population in the 2004Urban Audit o 2.4 million.
