Brockhurst

Brockhurst, Gosport
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Gosport
Hampshire
SU5901
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXXIII.6
Brockhurst
otherwise: Brochurst, 1200
refce: Coates 1989
BROCKHURST in Gosport
Perhaps '(wooded) eminence by a brook'. Old English 'broc' in Sussex and Kent may mean 'marshland adjacent to water', and this seems more suitable for the topography of Brockhurst, close to the western shore of Portsmouth Harbour.
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001