The Bradford Metropolitan District is home to over 528,000 people making it the fourth largest metropolitan district, and the eighth largest economy in England. The District covers approximately 141 square miles.

Britain’s Industrial Revolution transformed Bradford in the 19th century from a rural market town to an international trading centre, known as the ‘wool capital of the world’. Today however, over 70% of the district is clean, green, open space.

The District is home to over 4,000 listed buildings that include the City Hall, Italianate Clock Tower, Wool Exchange, Victorian Gothic Cemetery and Salts Mill.

Bradford City Centre is a culturally diverse, flourishing area. It continues to be an area of development with multi-million pound projects taking place to breathe new life into the city.

The award-winning city park, which opened in March 2012, is a flexible public space that is home to the Mirror Pool, the largest urban water feature in the UK; a beautifully lit fountain light display; and a thunderous 100ft water jet. It also has its own events programme which has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city centre.

A programme of Heritage Streets improvements is currently transforming the city centre to link City Park and the rest of the city centre with the new Broadway shopping centre. The Westfield-built centre opened on 5 November 2015 and is poised to attract an extra 9 million shoppers, create 3,000 new jobs and provide a £500 million boost to the district's economy.

Bradford is the world's first UNESCO City of Film, having long been home to the National Science and Media Museum, the country's largest visitor attraction dedicated to photography, broadcast media and the internet.

Bradford has been crowned Curry Capital of Britain for the last five years and Bombay Stores is the UK's largest Asian department store – reflecting the district's rich ethnic mix.

Art by Bradford-born David Hockney graces the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill and sits alongside Francisco Goya, William Blake and Andy Warhol at Cartwright Hall. The Impressions Gallery in City Park is one of the leading independent venues in the country for contemporary photography.

Culture and history rub shoulders at Bradford Industrial Museum, the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth, Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, and nearby East Riddlesden Hall. Bingley's Five-Rise Locks staircase, the most spectacular feature of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the steam engines of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway offer another look back at the district's industrial past.