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Leeds - cultural capital of West Yorkshire

Leeds is a busy city, offering the chance to enjoy plenty of nightlife, shopping facilities you would not expect to find, state of the art attractions not usually located outside London and good eating out places & entertainment.

Leeds' reputation for shopping goes from strength to strength, with top fashion store Harvey Nichols and many designer names. The city centre possesses elegant Victorian and Edwardian arcades, small boutiques and speciality shops in a pedestrianised city centre. 

On the tourism front, the Royal Armouries is the first national museum to house part of the Royal Collection from the Tower of London, in a £42 million home on the waterfront.  Harewood House is the spectacular home of the Queen's cousin, the Earl of Harewood, and the £6m Thackray Medical Museum is one of Leeds' newest attractions. 

Cultural events include opera and ballet in the park, the International Film Festival and quality theatre, and sports fans can enjoy top-class football (well almost!), rugby and cricket (!). A splendid choice of restaurants, bistros, café/bars and pubs around the city centre and waterfront account for five entries in the Good Food Guide and three coveted Michelin stars. 

Must see and do

Travel Information for Leeds:

1. It takes 2 hours 15 minutes on the train from London (via GNER - www.gner.co.uk) - view train times at www.thetrainline.com here.

2. It is 189 miles by road from Leeds to London, and this takes approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.

 3. It is 2 hours on the train from Birmingham (via Virgin Trains - www.virgintrains.co.uk) 

4. It is 106 miles by road from Leeds to Birmingham, and this takes approximately 2 hours 10 minutes.

 5. It takes 4 hours 15 minutes on the train from Cardiff (via Virgin and Central Trains).

6. It is 204 miles by road from Leeds to Cardiff, and this takes approximately 4 hours 20 minutes.

House Buying 

Houses prices as you would expect vary depending on the area.

 Below are sample prices for the Harrogate area as at the 1^st June 2005 (visit www.rightmove.co.uk).

 From Leeds to Harrogate it is 15 miles and takes approximately 30 minutes (see www.multimap.com for location and travel).

 Below are sample prices for the Mirfield area as at the 1^st June 2005.

From Mirfield to Leeds it is 10 miles and takes approximately 25 minutes.

Below are sample prices for the Garforth area as at the 1^st June 2005.

From Garforth to Leeds it is 7 miles and takes approximately 15 minutes.

School League Tables

Top 15 schools for A Level results in Leeds (source - the BBC website 2004): 

Top 15 primary schools in Leeds (source - the BBC website 2004):

For details of our vacancies in Leeds at present, please click here. 

Hotels

These hotels are nicely situated for interviews and visiting the Leeds area. For a full search of hotels in West Yorkshire and Leeds, please click here

You can also visit the Ten Percent Hotel booking pages, operated by www.superbreak.com

The content of the careers centre is intended as guidance only. It has been written by Jonathan Fagan LLM, the managing director of Ten-Percent and its' family of legal recruitment websites. Jonathan Fagan is a non-practising solicitor, author of the Complete Guide to Writing a Legal CV and the Guide to Interviews for Lawyers. He has recruited for law firms across the UK and overseas in all shapes and sizes. If you have any questions that we have not covered above, please contact us by calling 0845 644 3923, or emailing us at cv@tenpercent.co.uk