Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bradford

Early-attested site in the Parish of Youlgreave

Historical Forms

Brad(e)ford c.1250,Ed1 BelCh 1652 ParlSurv

Etymology

Bradford, Brad (e )ford c. 1250, Ed 1BelCh , 1652ParlSurv . 'Broad ford', v. brād , ford , and cf. R. Bradford supra 4.

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement

Youlgreave