English Place-name Society

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.

Bradley Mills

Early-attested site in the Parish of Kirkheaton

Historical Forms

  • molendina de Bradeley 1195–1215 YChviii
  • Bradelay 1269 YDvi 1331 Font

Etymology

Bradley Mills, 1843 O.S., molendina de Bradeley 1195–1215 YCh viii, Bradelay 1269 YD vi, 1331 Font; some of the spellings cited for Bradley 296infra may in fact belong here; the two names seem to be independent creations, distinguished from each other by the affixes -Mills and Nether -. 'Broad glade or clearing', v. brād , lēah .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site