Holt, Dorset
Historical Description
Holt, formerly a chapelry in Wimborne Minster parish, Dorsetshire, 3½ miles NE of Wimbome Minster station on the L. & S.W.R., with a post office under Wimbome; money order and telegraph office, Wimbome. It includes the hamlet of Petersham. Population, 815. The surface was formerly forest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £240 with residence. The church has been rebuilt.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Dorsetshire | |
| Diocese | Bristol | 1542 - 1836 |
| Diocese | Salisbury | 1836 - |
| Poor Law union | Wimborne and Cranborne | 1894 - |
| Registration district | Wimborne | |
| Registration sub-district | Wimborne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Dorset is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Holt are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)