Holdfast, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Holdfast, a hamlet and a township in Ripple parish, Worcestershire, 1½ mile SE of Upton-on-Severn. Acreage, 697; population, 80.
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 | Worcestershire | |
| Civil parish | Ripple | |
| Hundred | Oswaldslow | |
| Poor Law union | Upton-upon-Severn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Holdfast from the following:
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Holdfast 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.