This article discusses the metropolitan borough and district named the City of Bradford Metropolitan District. For information on the city itself, see Bradford, the district's principal settlement, from which it takes it's name.

City of Bradford Metropolitan District
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough, City (1897)
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial County:	West Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 130th 366.42 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bradford
ONS code:	00CX
Demographics
Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density	Ranked 4th 477,775 1,304 / km²
Ethnicity:	78.3% White 18.9% S.Asian
Politics
Bradford City Council http://www.bradford.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Terry Rooney, Gerry Sutcliffe, Marsha Singh, Ann Cryer, Christopher Leslie

The City of Bradford Metropolitan District is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is named after its largest settlement, the city of Bradford.

Places within the borough boundaries (in addition to the Bradford city area itself) include Addingham , Baildon, Bingley, Burley in Wharfdale , Cottingley, Cullingworth, Denholme , Haworth, Ilkley, Keighley, Manningham, Menston , Oakworth, Oxenhope, Queensbury, Saltaire, Shipley, Silsden, Steeton with Eastburn , Thornton and Wilsden.

The northern and western parts of the district are largely rural, with areas of high moorland including the famous Ilkley Moor and Brontë Country.

The current borough boundaries date from April 1, 1974, when the county borough of Bradford was merged with the borough of Keighley, the urban districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme , Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district and part of Skipton Rural District .

Parishes

Most of the Bradford city area is still unparished, but there are parish and town councils for most of the outlying towns and villages in the District. At present (November 2004) the following areas are parished:

• Addingham
• Clayton
• Cullingworth
• Denholme
• Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
• Ilkley
• Keighley
• Oxenhope
• Sandy Lane
• Silsden
• Steeton with Eastburn
• Wilsden
• Wrose

For More Information

More information about the Bradford District is contained under the Bradford entry. There is also a site called bradfordinfo.com which has a range of statistical and other information about the District, and includes a Geographical Information System accesible from mapsandstats.com