Hurst

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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,”

“‘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.’”

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

“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.”

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