More info about West Yorkshire

Coal, wool and iron have made way for new businesses, startups and producers in towns like Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and more. Leeds has become one of the main centres of business and finance in the country. Natural beauty is also to be found in the surrounding countryside and the literary history of Haworth, the home of the Brontë's, provides a major cultural landmark. Fun Fact: Marks and Spencer, the British retail chain, that now majors in food and beverages as well as its traditional clothes stores, began in Leeds. The company was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks, a Polish Jew, who had migrated to Leeds, England, and Thomas Spencer, a cashier from the Yorkshire market town of Skipton.