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Brockhurst, Staffordshire

Hamlet in Staffordshire, England

Summary

Hamlet in Staffordshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Brockhurst
static_image_name	Medieval Moat at Brockhurst Farm - geograph.org.uk - 444857.jpg
static_image_caption	The medieval moat at Brockhurst Farm
coordinates
shire_district	South Staffordshire
shire_county	Staffordshire
civil_parish	Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard
region	West Midlands
os_grid_reference	SJ824118
constituency_westminster	Stafford

Brockhurst is a hamlet in Staffordshire, England, 1 mile sorth-west of Blymhill. It is part of Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard civil parish within South Staffordshire district.

Today the hamlet consists of Brockhurst farm, a red brick 18th farmhouse, and two blocks of semi-detached houses built in 1954. The buildings rest on the site of a much earlier settlement, as evidenced by medieval earthworks. These include a square moat to the south-eastern side of the farmhouse, with raised mound within, and the line of a second moat seventy-five yards to the south-west.

Raven speculates on the origin of the name 'Brockhurst':

'Broc' in a place name usually means either stream or badger. 'Hurst' can mean either a wood or a hill, or a wooded hill or even a sandbank in a river. As there are no streams, hills or sandbanks here it might be fair to interpret the name 'Brockhurst' as meaning 'the wood (or clearing in the wood) which has a badger sett'.

References

Raven, Michael. (2004). "A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country". Michael Raven.
"Election Maps". [[Ordnance Survey]].

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