hurst

plural hursts

1. rare outside place namesA wood or grove.

   A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]

   2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150

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   Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,

   1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27

   ‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’

   1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158

   A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.

   2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124

1. A number of places in England:
   1. A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
   2. A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
   3. A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
   4. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
   5. A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
   6. A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
   7. A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
   2. A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
   3. A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
   4. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
3. A surname.