Goudhurst
English
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Etymology
[edit]From an unclear Old English personal name + hyrst (“wooded hill”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Goudhurst
- A village and civil parish in Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7237). [2]
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 119:
- At Darley Dale, in Derbyshire, there is another yew about 1,000 years younger with a 32 ft girth, while a mighty yew at Goudhurst, Kent, has a bench seating 12 in its hollow trunk.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
- ^ Parish map