BRADSHAW, a chapelry in the parish of BOLTON, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (N.B.) from Bolton le Moors, containing 713 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £400' parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Bolton le Moors. A collection of books given by, Mrs. Isherwood, for the use of the inhabitants, is kept in the chapel. Here are extensive bleaching-grounds. A school for the education of poor children has lately been erected. Bradshaw Hall was the property and re-, sidence of John Bradshaw, who presided at the trial o£ the unfortunate monarch, Charles I.