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name
A number of places in England:
A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
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name
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
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name
A number of places in England:
A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
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name
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
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name
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
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name
A number of places in England:
A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
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name
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
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name
A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
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name
A place in the United States:
A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A wood or grove.
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Qualifier: rare outside place names
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History
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.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
