Description
Holt, formerly a chapelry in Wimborne Minster parish, Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 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 and Wales, 1894-5
