| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Brockhurst |
| Static Image Name: | Medieval Moat at Brockhurst Farm - geograph.org.uk - 444857.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | The medieval moat at Brockhurst Farm |
| Coordinates: | 52.704°N -2.261°W |
| Shire District: | South Staffordshire |
| Shire County: | Staffordshire |
| Civil Parish: | Blymhill and Weston-under-Lizard |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Os Grid Reference: | SJ824118 |
| Constituency Westminster: | 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'.