HYRST, or HERST, are derived from the Saxon hyrð, i.e. a wood, or grove of trees. There are many places in Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, which begin and end with this syllable; and the reason may be, because the great wood called Andredwald extended through those counties.

HURST-Castle, a fortress of Hampshire in England, not far from Limington. It is seated on the extreme point of a neck of land which shoots into the sea, towards the isle of Wight, from which it is distant two miles.