Google agrees to remove hyphens from town name – after 130 year campaign

Bradford on Avon or Bradford-on-Avon? (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)

Wars and conflicts continue to rage, but at least one argument stewing for decades has been settled for good.

With or without hyphens? That is the question residents of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire have been mulling over the spelling of the town’s name.

Google has become a hero in a long-standing row after it agreed to remove the hyphens from the town’s name.

It comes after a campaign by locals, who have labelled the hyphen use as a ‘rogue’ accident that has been blamed on railway signs.

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