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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Leeds History
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Leeds became a city in

 

1693
1893
1793
1993

 Which raw local product was used to make cloth ?

 

Cotton
Wool
Flax
Calico
Ilbert de Laci was given Leeds, Holbeck & Woodhouse by

 

Richard I
Henry I
Edward the Confessor
William I

 The area was a small farming village until about

 

80 AD
880
580
1080
In 1801 there were 20 mills in Leeds, by 1840 there were

 

205
85
45
105

 A railway was opened in 1839 that connected Leeds with where ?

 

London
Birmingham
Hull
Manchester
By around 1275 the region was the centre for which industry ?

 

Coal
Cloth
Farming
Timber

 One of the world's largest woollen mills was at

 

Park Mills
Skopos Mills
Burley Mills
Armley Mills
In 1816 Leeds became importantly linked to which Port by Canal ?

 

Liverpool
Manchester
Bristol
Hull

 Many of the fine Victorian in Leeds City centre were designed by

 

John Barry
Cuthbert Broderick
George Bamber
John Nash


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