Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HURST

HURST, a word signifying "a wood, " and used in some instances by itself, in very many instances in composition, as in Ticehurst, Hawkhurst, c, to designate places which were once foreST.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a word signifying "a wood, ""