Bradford

Bradford is a city and metropolitan borough in in the north of England. With a population of about 550,000 to the east its built-up area runs into that of , while to the west are Pennine valleys, the "Bronte Country".
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  • Type: City with 294,000 residents
  • Description: city and largest settlement in the City of Bradford district, Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Bradford, Yorkshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Valley Parade and Bradford Forster Square Railway Station.

Stadium
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, currently known as Mbanq for sponsorship reasons, is an all-seater football stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The stadium was built in 1886 as the home of Manningham Rugby Football Club; it remained so until 1903, when the club changed code from rugby league to association football, and became Bradford City A.F.C.

Railway station
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serves Bradford, , England. The majority of services to and from the station use Class 333 and Class 331 electric multiple units operated by Northern Trains; they run on the Airedale line to , the Wharfedale line to and the Leeds–Bradford line to .

Museum
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The , located in Bradford, , is part of the national Science Museum Group in the UK. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on photography, television, animation, videogaming, the Internet and the scientific principles behind light and colour.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltaire and West Leeds.

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is a Victorian model village and UNESCO World Heritage Site in , .

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is an extensive area of the city of , bounded by the river Aire to the north and Fulneck, the M621 and M62 to the south. It is separated from South Leeds by Whitehall Road and from North by the river.

Suburb
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is an area, former village, and ward within the Bradford district, in the county of , England. The ward population of was 17,945 at the 2011 Census.

Bradford

Latitude
53.7944° or 53° 47′ 40″ north
Longitude
-1.7519° or 1° 45′ 7″ west
Population
294,000
Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)
IATA airport code
BRF
United Nations Location Code
GB BRF
Open location code
9C5WQ6VX+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26701367
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2654993
Wiki­data ID
Q22905
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bradford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bradford”
  • Amharic: “ብራድፎርድ”
  • Arabic: “برادفورد”
  • Aragonese: “Bradford”
  • Armenian: “Բրեդֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Bradford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bredford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brədford”
  • Balinese: “Bradford”
  • Basque: “Bradford”
  • Belarusian: “Брадфард”
  • Belarusian: “Брэдфард”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাডফোর্ড”
  • Bengali: “ব্র্যাডফোর্ড”
  • Breton: “City of Bradford”
  • Bulgarian: “Брадфорд”
  • Catalan: “Bradford”
  • Cebuano: “Bradford (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Bradford”
  • Central Kurdish: “برادفۆرد”
  • Chinese: “巴拉福特”
  • Chinese: “布拉德福德”
  • Croatian: “Bradford”
  • Czech: “Bradford”
  • Danish: “Bradford”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bradford”
  • Dutch: “Bradford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برادفورد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة برادفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Bradford”
  • Estonian: “Bradford”
  • Finnish: “Bradford”
  • French: “Bradford”
  • Galician: “Bradford”
  • Georgian: “ბრედფორდი”
  • German: “Bradford”
  • Greek: “Μπράντφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેડફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “ברדפורד”
  • Hindi: “ब्रैडफोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Bradford”
  • Icelandic: “Bradford”
  • Indonesian: “Bradford”
  • Irish: “Bradford”
  • Italian: “Bradford”
  • Japanese: “ブラッドフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಡ್ಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಡ್ಫೊರ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Брэдфорд”
  • Korean: “브래드퍼드”
  • Kurdish: “Bradford”
  • Ladin: “Bradford”
  • Latvian: “Bredforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Bradfordas”
  • Macedonian: “Брадфорд”
  • Malay: “Bradford”
  • Marathi: “ब्रॅडफोर्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “برادفورد”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bradford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bradford”
  • Norwegian: “Bradford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bradanford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brādanford”
  • Ossetian: “Брадфорд”
  • Persian: “برادفورد”
  • Persian: “بردفورد”
  • Piemontese: “Bradford”
  • Polish: “Bradford”
  • Portuguese: “Bradford”
  • Quechua: “Bradford”
  • Romanian: “Bradford”
  • Russian: “Брадфорд”
  • Russian: “Бредфорд”
  • Russian: “Брэдфорд”
  • Scots: “Bradford”
  • Serbian: “Бредфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bradford, West Yorkshire”
  • Silesian: “Bradford”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රැඩ්ෆෝර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Bradford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برادفورد”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بردفورد، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Spanish: “Bradford (Yorkshire)”
  • Spanish: “Bradford”
  • Swahili: “Bradford”
  • Swedish: “Bradford”
  • Tajik: “Брадфорд”
  • Tamil: “பிராட்ஃபோர்ட்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ராட்போர்ட”
  • Tatar: “Брәдфорд”
  • Telugu: “బ్రాడ్ ఫోర్డ్”
  • Thai: “แบรดฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Bradford”
  • Ukrainian: “Бредфорд”
  • Urdu: “بریڈفورڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Bradford”
  • Vietnamese: “Bradford”
  • Welsh: “Bradford”
  • Western Frisian: “Bradford”
  • Western Panjabi: “بریڈفورڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布拉德福德”
  • Yiddish: “בראדפארד”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拉福特”
  • “Bradford”

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