Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Holt. You may be able to find further references to Holt in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Holt ecclesiastical district and village with railway station Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Holt within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Henry Vincent Feb. 26 to 27: Bath and Frome 2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Staverton 0 2
Great Chalfield 0 2
Little Chalfield 0 2
Bradford Leigh 0 2
Whaddon 0 2
Hilperton 0 2
Bradford on Avon 33 4
Broughton Gifford 0 2
Atworth 0 2
South Wraxall 0 1
Trowbridge 18 2
Cottles 0 1
Studley 0 2
Semington 0 2
Shaw 0 3
Westwood 0 2
Great Hinton 0 2
Littleton 0 3
Melksham 0 4
Wingfield 0 2