Brockhurst, Staffordshire

Brockhurst
The medieval moat at Brockhurst Farm
Brockhurst Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ824118
Civil parish	Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard
District	South Staffordshire
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	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.[1][2]

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.[1]

Raven speculates on the origin of the name 'Brockhurst':[1]

'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

1. Raven, Michael (2004). A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country. Michael Raven. ISBN 0906114330.
2. Election Maps (Map). Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 25 June 2020.