Bradley
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Old English brād (“broad”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to broad + -ley.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹædli/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ædli
Proper noun
Bradley (countable and uncountable, plural Bradleys)
- A placename
- A locale in the United Kingdom
- A locale in England:
- A village in Cheshire.
- A village in Derbyshire.
- A hamlet near Wotton-under-Edge, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7493).
- A village in Hampshire.
- A village in Lincolnshire.
- A village in North Yorkshire.
- A village in Staffordshire.
- A suburb in the City of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9595).
- A suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1620).
- A village in Gwersyllt community, Wrexham county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3253).
- A locale in England:
- A locale in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in Alabama.
- A town in Arkansas.
- A census-designated place in Monterey County, California; named for landowner Bradley V. Sargent.
- An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for railroad official John Wiley Bradley Jr..
- A village in Illinois; named for plowman David Bradley.
- A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A town in Maine; named for early settler Bradley Blackman.
- An unincorporated community in Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Nebraska.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in South Carolina.
- A town in South Dakota; named for townsperson E. R. Bradley.
- A census-designated place in West Virginia.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A locale in the United Kingdom
- An English habitational surname from Old English from any of these villages in England.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms
- Bradleyan
- Bradleyism
- Bradley Land
- Bradley Stoke
- Maiden Bradley
See also
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