Bradford

Bradford, a Yorkshire manufacturing town, on a tributary of the Aire, 9 m. W. of Leeds; it is the chief seat of worsted spinning and weaving in England, and has an important wool market; coal and iron mines are at hand, and iron-works and machinery-making are its other industries. Also the name of a manufacturing town on the Avon, in Wilts.

Population (circa 1900) given as 216,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)