BRADFORD (WEST), a township in that part of the parish of MITTON which is in the western division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (N.) from Clitheroe, containing 564 inhabitants. Thomas Tarrand in 1721, bequeathed a rent-charge of £10 for instructing poor children of the township.