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Hurst is quite a common geographic surname in both English and the continental Germanic languages. Since the form is the same it is impossible to narrow it down. It originally referred to a coppice - a wood actively and regularly cut to produce wood of the desired size for lathes, staves, bows etc. and probably planted with specific trees for that purpose - however most of these were abandoned at some point and allowed to go wild (very many estates and villages which once managed them failed in different periods for various reasons) and the word has now the general sense of a wood or thicket of trees.

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