Bradshaw

alternative Brayshaw

1. The name of some places in Northern England.
   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)
2. A habitational surname from Old English derived from these places.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
   2. A village in York County, Nebraska.
   3. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County and Roanoke County, Virginia.
   4. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
   5. A town in McDowell County, West Virginia.

plural Bradshaws · alternative Brayshaw

1. UKrail transportA 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.

   1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden

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   The "5th Mo. (May) 1939" issue of Bradshaw's Railway Shipping, and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland appears in a cream cover printed in blue and gold, and a prefatory note explains that, as 1939 is being celebrated as the centenary year of Bradshaw, it is intended to adopt this livery from now until the September issue inclusive. For October, the centenary month, Bradshaw will be published in a gold cover printed in red and blue.

   1939 June, “Railway Literature: Bradshaw's Guide”, in Railway Magazine, page 465

present singular third person Bradshaws · participle present Bradshawing · participle past Bradshawed · past Bradshawed · alternative Brayshaw

1. ambitransitiveaeronauticsTo navigate by following railway lines.

   Near-synonym: IFR

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   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.

   1944, Jerrard Tickell, quoting Gp Capt John Mitchell, Ascalon, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published 1964, page 88