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Hurtstocks Wood
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Stocklos
(KW)
Type:
Topographical Feature
Parish:
Cardinham
Hundred:
West Wivelshire
Notes:
Horesstocks includes Eng. 'hoar' - loos. hoar may have been reinterepreted as hurts, local name for a type of whortleberry/ bilberry.
Elements:
loos
Meaning:
grey
stock
Meaning:
stump
Elements notes:
stock 'stump' + loos 'grey'
Historic forms:
Horestock 1565, Horestocks 1733. Horstokk 1496 Hurtstocks Lodge, Cardinham