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"text": "A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means \"the hurst that was left to someone in a will\": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.",
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