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Bradshaw

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From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent to broad + shaw.

proper noun Brayshaw

  1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7312).
  2. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0830).
  3. A hamlet in Longsdon parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9455).
  4. A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0514)
  5. A habitational surname from Old English derived from these places.
  6. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
  7. A village in York County, Nebraska.
  8. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County and Roanoke County, Virginia.
  9. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
  10. A town in McDowell County, West Virginia.

noun Bradshaws · Brayshaw

  1. UK A former railway guide and timetable published by George Bradshaw. Publication ceased in May 1961. He was at breakfast at nine, and for the twentieth time consulted his Bradshaw to see at what earliest hour Dr Grantly could arrive from Barchester.

verb Bradshaws · Bradshawing · Bradshawed · Brayshaw

  1. ambitransitive To navigate by following railway lines. To all intents and purposes, we had either to map-read or Bradshaw our way across tens of thousands of acres of featureless, flat landscape.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bradford, bradley, barlow, bradfordian, basford, bradwell, bradfield, bagley, dalton, bramley, bagshaw, bradbury, thackley, broome, barsham, blankshire

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"Bradshaw." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bradshaw. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Bradshaw. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bradshaw

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"Bradshaw." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bradshaw.

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@misc{bradshaw_2026,
  title = {Bradshaw},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bradshaw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}