Holt
Major Settlement in the Parish of Holt
Historical Forms
- Winburneholt 1185 P 1225–6 FF
- chase of Wynberncholt(h)' 1199 CartAnt
- liberam chaciam…de Wsselay et de Wynberneholt(h) 1199 Ch 1233
- Wynburneholt 1221 ClR
- Wimburn(e)holt(e), 'forest and chases of Wimburneholt' 1230 FF
- chacia de Wymburn(e)holt(e) 1288 Ass
- Wumburnehold 1252 Misc
- Wymbo(u)rneholte 1416 Cl
- Wymbo(u)rne Holte 1468 MinAcct
- Holt(e) 1286 Ch 1313 Pat 1307
- Chacee de Holte 1468 MinAcct
- le Holte 1427 HarlRoll 1524 AddCh
- Hollt(t)e 1523,1524 1551 DLCt
Etymology
'The wood near Wimborne,, v. holt , Wimborne M. par. infra , Wysselay infra . Most of the early references are to the royal chase and forest, first mentioned as foresta de Winburne 1086 DB in the entry for Horton (VCHDo 381), Holt Forest infra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Lt Adam's Copse
- Alderbed copse
- Barewood Copse
- Barley Mow Barn
- Batchelor's Lane
- Bee Gdn
- Bowering's Water
- Bower's Fm
- Brach Copse
- Broad Bridge
- Broad Lawn
- Brookside
- Broom Hill
- Bull Barrow
- Burt's Lane
- Bushy Row
- Chalky Close Copse
- Chapel Copse
- Clayford Fm
- Cocks' Moor Pond
- Crooked Withies
- Cross Keys (P.H.)
- Cutler's Fm
- Daffodil Copse
- Dairy Ho
- Driver's Plant.
- Early's Fm
- Frog's Hole
- Garden Copse
- Gaunt's Major Copse
- God's Blessing Fm, God's Blessing Green & God's Blessing Lane
- Green Fm
- The Green
- Hart's Lane (Copse)
- Hill Fm
- Hilly Close Copse
- Holt Fm
- Holt Heath
- Holt Lane (Copse)
- Holt Lodge Fm
- Holt Wd
- Horse Copse
- Horseshoes
- Humphrey's Copse
- Little Lodge
- Lodge Copse & Lodge Hill
- Long Lane (Fm)
- Lyon's Wd
- Mannington Copse & Mannington Fm
- Margreed Copse
- Martin's Close Copse
- Mill
- Rabbits' Copse
- Stag's Pond
- The Stocks (P.H.)
- Summerlug Hill
- Tile Barn (Copse)
- Trendall's Copse
- Uddens Park
- Vicarage (Fm)
- White Copse
- White Ho Holding
- White Moor (Copse)
- White Sheet Hill, White Sheet Lodge & White Sheet Plant.
- The Wilderness
- The Withy Bed
- Wood Mire Copse
- Newman's Fm & Newman's Lane
- Organ Lawn
- Paradise Ctgs & Paradise Rd
- Park Copse
- Petersham Copse
- Pig Oak (Fm)
- Pilford Copse & Pilford Lane
- Pillmoor Bottom
- Pond Head, Pond Head Bridge & Pond Head Copse
- Poplar Copse
- Queen's Copse
- Hr Row & Lr Row, Row Copse, Row Hill (Fm)
- St James's Church
- St John's Mission Church
- (Lt) Scriven's Copse
- South Common
- Spring Hill Ctgs
- Stable Copse