the army; _e.g._ Harwich (army town or bay), in Essex, so called because the Danes had a great military depot at this place; Herstal, in Belgium, anc. _Hari-stelle_ (army place); Hargrave (the army entrenchment), in Norfolk; Harbottle (the army’s quarters), in Northumberland. In Edmond’s _Names of Places_ this prefix, as well as _hor_, is referred to an A.S. word signifying hoary; under which he places Harborough, in Leicestershire, the name of which is traced by Bailey to _havre_ (oats). [Sidenote: HART, HARZ (Teut.), HYRST (A.S.),] brushwood or a wood; _e.g._ the Harz Mountains, with the town of Harzburg (the fortress in the wood); Harsefeld (woody field), in Hanover; Hurst, in Kent; Deerhurst (deer wood or thicket); Hurst-Monceaux (the wood of Monceaux, probably a Norman baron), in Sussex; Hurst, a town in Lancashire; Lyndhurst (the wood of lime-trees); Midhurst (in the middle of the wood); Hawkhurst (hawk wood); Gravenhorst (the count’s wood); Horstmar (rich in wood)--_v._ MAR; Billing’s-hurst (the wood of the Billings), a patronymic; Farnhurst and Ferneyhurst (ferny wood); Sendenhorst (the rushy wood), in Westphalia; Herzovia or Herzegovia (a woody district), in Turkey; Murrhard, in Wurtemberg, means the wood on the R. Muhr; Delmenhorst, on the Delme, in Hanover. Hart, in English topography, however, refers more commonly to _heort_ (the hart), as in Hart_grove_, Hart_land_, Hart_ley_, Hart_field_, Harts_ford_, Harts_hill_. It occasionally takes the form of _chart_, as in Seal-chart (holy wood); Chart-Sutton (the wood at the south town). [Sidenote: HASEL, HAEZEL (Teut.),] the hazel-tree; _e.g._ Hessle (the place of hazels); Haselburn and Haselbrunnen (the stream and well of the hazels); Haslau (hazel meadow); Heslington (the dwelling among hazels); Hasselt, in Belgium, _i.e._ Hasselholt, Lat. _Hasseletum_ (hazel grove); Hasseloe (hazel island), in Sweden and Denmark; Hazeldean and Haslingden (the hollow of the hazels). [Sidenote: HATCH, HÆCA (A.S.),] a bolt, a gate, hence an enclosed dwelling; _e.g._ Hatch-Beauchamp (the enclosed dwelling of Beauchamp, a personal name); Colney-Hatch (of Colney); West-Hatch, in Somerset; Pilgrim’s Hatch, in Essex. [Sidenote: HAUGH, HEUGH, HOW, HOPE.]