hurst

Meanings

1. A wood or grove.

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

Etymology

From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.