HURST

(Saxon) Local. A wood, a grove; fruit-bearing trees.

REDDENHURST

Local. Reddon, Cor. Br., fern, and hurst, Saxon, a wood or grove.

BATHURST

(Sax.) Local. From Bath, as above, and hurst, a place of fruit-trees, a wood or grove. Boothhurst, the house or lodge in the grove.

AMHERST

(Saxon) Local. From ham, a town or village, and hurst or herst, a wood, the town in the wood, the H by custom, being dropped or silent. It may have been derived from Hamo, who was sheriff in the county of Kent, in the time of William the Conqueror; a descendant of his was called Hamo de Herst, and the Norman de, and the aspirate h being dropped Amherst. Amhurst, the connected grove, or conjoined woods; am, in the British, as a prefix, has the sense of Amb, amphi, circum, i.e., about, surrounding, encompassing; hence, the surrounding grove, or Amhurst.

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