Bradley

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1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA former civil parish in Cheshire, part of Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley parish since 2015.
   2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2245).
   3. countableuncountableA hamlet in Wotton-under-Edge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7493).
   4. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6341).
   5. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TA2406).
   6. countableuncountableTwo villages, High Bradley and Low Bradley, in Bradleys Both parish, North Yorkshire.
   7. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8818).
   8. countableuncountableA suburb in the City of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9595).
   9. countableuncountableA northern suburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1620).
   10. countableuncountableA village in Gwersyllt community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3253).
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Alabama (unconfirmed).
   12. countableuncountableA minor city in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
   13. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Monterey County, California; named for landowner Bradley V. Sargent.
   14. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jones County, Georgia; named for railroad official John Wiley Bradley Jr..
   15. countableuncountableA township in Jackson County, Illinois.
   16. countableuncountableA village in Kankakee County, Illinois; named for plowman David Bradley.
   17. countableuncountableA neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   18. countableuncountableA town and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine; named for early settler Bradley Blackman.
   19. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wayland Township, Allegan County, Michigan.
   20. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.
   21. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
   22. countableuncountableA small town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
   23. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Greenwood County, South Carolina.
   24. countableuncountableA small town in Clark County, South Dakota; named for townsperson E. R. Bradley.
   25. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
   26. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, named after Omar Bradley.
   27. countableuncountableA town and unincorporated community therein, in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
2. countableuncountableAn English habitational surname from Old English from any of these villages in England.
3. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.

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   2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian