Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• foresta de Winburne 1086 DB

• 'forest and chases of Wimburneholt' 1230 FF

• chaceam de Wymburne 1288 Ass

• Chacee de Holt(e), Foresta de Holt(e) 1468 MinAcct

• Common called Holte Foreste 1583 SPDom

• her Majesties forest and Chase of Holte 1595 DLComm

Etymology

Holt Forest (SU 039055), 1847TA , foresta de Winburne 1086 DB, 'forest and chases of Wimburneholt '1230 FF, chaceam de Wymburne 1288Ass , Chacee de Holt (e ), Foresta de Holt (e )1468MinAcct , Common called Holte Foreste 1583SPDom , her Majesties forest and Chase of Holte 1595DLComm , cf. Forest Grd & Forest Mdw 1847TA , Holt Wood infra . For other early references to the chase and forest of Holt, v. par. name supra . The bounds of the forest are given in Ed I Hutch3 3245 and in 1595DLComm (44/534), v. DoNHAS 88197–201. Within the forest (S of Holt Lodge Fm infra ) was parcus de Holte 1468MinAcct , Holte Parke 1547DLMB , 1583SPDom , cf. Parke Corner 1591DLMB , and also (N of Lodge Hill infra ) Olde Parke (Coppice )1595 DoNHAS, cf. Alderbed Copse infra , Park Close 1847TA ; on these two parks, v. Cantor & Wilson 9202–205.