Talk:hurst

Doesn't it usually mean a wooded hill or hilltop, rather than simply a wood? Kelisi (talk) 18:55, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

I don't know about the relative commonness of the various meanings, but it does seem to have also meant "a hillock" at some point, yes (and that meaning may be preserved in placenames). Dictionary.com, thefreedictionary.com and Collins define it as "a wood", "a sandbank", but oxforddictionaries.com, in addition to those meanings, adds the meaning "a hillock". The hard part is going to be finding examples of the term in literature so as to verify that it was still used, with (any of) those meanings, in the modern English era (post-1500). - -sche (discuss) 20:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)