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


In 1816 Leeds became importantly linked to which Port by Canal ?

 

Bristol
Liverpool
Manchester
Hull

 In 1801 there were 20 mills in Leeds, by 1840 there were

 

45
205
85
105
Leeds became a city in

 

1793
1693
1893
1993

 Which raw local product was used to make cloth ?

 

Flax
Cotton
Wool
Calico
The area was a small farming village until about

 

580
80 AD
880
1080

 By around 1275 the region was the centre for which industry ?

 

Farming
Coal
Cloth
Timber
Many of the fine Victorian in Leeds City centre were designed by

 

George Bamber
John Barry
Cuthbert Broderick
John Nash

 Ilbert de Laci was given Leeds, Holbeck & Woodhouse by

 

Edward the Confessor
Richard I
Henry I
William I
A railway was opened in 1839 that connected Leeds with where ?

 

Hull
London
Birmingham
Manchester

 One of the world's largest woollen mills was at

 

Burley Mills
Park Mills
Skopos Mills
Armley Mills


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