Hyrst

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hyrst

Add: I. a wood, copse :-- Hec sunt pascua porcorurn . . . ilia silua sandhyrst norninatur, C. D. ii. 65, 8. II. an eminence, knoll :-- Wermōd on hyrstum heasewe standed (cf. wermōd byd cenned on dūnum and on stǣnilicum stōwum, Lch. i. 216, 19) glauca absinthia campi, Rä. 41, 61. ¶ The word occurs in a great many place-names. Where the first part of the compound is the name of a tree hyrst probably belongs to I. e. g. æsc-, hæsel-, hnut-, holen-, mapolder-, seal-, þorn-hyrst. So, too, perhaps in earnes, ūlan hyrst. But in some others it might belong to II, e. g. cysel-hyrst. [N. B. D. hurst.] hyrst