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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bradley Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Bradley

Historical Forms

  • Bradley woode 1535–46 MinAcct 1537 AOMB
  • Silvas de Bradley 1600 Nelthorpe
  • Bradley wood 1601 LCS
  • Bosco in Bradley 1620 ib
  • the great wood or Bradley Woods 1688 Nelthorpe

Etymology

, 1828 Bry , Bradley woode 1535–46MinAcct , 1537AOMB 209 ,Silvas de Bradley 1600Nelthorpe , Bradley wood 1601LCS , Bosco in Bradley 1620ib , the great wood or Bradley Woods 1688Nelthorpe , cf. Vnderwode 1294Ass (p) , Attewode 1327SR (p) , Atte Wode 1332ib (p) , and note a wood called Bradeley Wood which belonged to Wellowe [ i.e. Wellow Abbey ] lying in welloo ,Clee , Grymmesbye and Scarthowe 1544 LP xix , cf. Bradley supra .