Norfolk: Holt

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Holt is about 21 miles N.N.W. of Norwich.
It is also the name of the hundred and the deanery, so a reference to Holt could mean this parish, or this area of Norfolk.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Holt (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Holt.
See Thornage

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Holt, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

(No author): The Wesleyan Conference v. Cozens-Hardy and others.
A report of the proceedings in Chancery against the trustees and mortgagees of two Wesleyan chapels at Holt, in the county of Norfolk, before Vice-Chancellor Lord Cranworth, at Westminster Hall, April 16th, 17th, 23rd, and 24th, and May 7th, 1851; with an introduction by W. Cozens-Hardy, showing the origin, progress, and termination of the suit.
[London, John Kaye and Co., 1852]
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton: Holt Church (St Andrew), Norfolk.
[London, Home Words, 1956]

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Holt was in Erpingham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Holt: Description, history and pictures.
Bunn, Rhoda: Holt and District: a portrait in old picture postcards.
[ISBN 1870708385, S.B. Publications, 1990]
Harrod, Mrs W. (editor): Official guide to Holt and district, Norfolk. Designed and published by the Holt and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce.
[Holt, Rounce and Wortley, (19--)]
MacKeown, Martin: Holt and its environs.
[Harnser, 1981]

Directories

1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
Holt and District Official Guide.
[Holt Parish Council, Rounce and Wortley, 1934]
Holt Almanac and Directory, including Kelling and High Kelling, with street map.
[1966]
Holt: Official Guide, Directory and Map: 1984-1985.
[ISBN 0907005039, Wisbech, Charles N. Veal, Holt Town Council, 1984?]

Historical Geography

Holt is in Holt Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Holt Hundred
Description of Holt Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

(No author): An account of the festival at Holt, given in commemoration of the happy return of peace, on the twelfth of August, 1814.
[Holt, J. Shalders, 1814]
Brooks, Peter: Holt: historical market town.
[ISBN 0946148015, Poppyland, 1982]
Hales, Jane: Ninety years in one house.
[ISBN 0948400471, Larks Press, 1996]
Hales, Jane: One thing and another.
[Wisbech, Veal, 1982]
Hales, Jane: Three centuries at Holt. Published for the Holt Society.
[Hunstanton, Priests Publications, 1968]
Radford, Lewis Bostock: History of Holt: a brief study of parish, church and school.
[Holt, Rounce and Wortley, 1908]

Land and Property

Inclosure: See Letheringsett
Parker, Graham: A History of Holt Hall - up to 1946.
(Including the families of Briggs, Hobart, De Nerford, Pemberton, Rogers, De Roos, Tomlinson and Vaux).
[Norfolk Education Authority, c1990]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Holt became part of the Erpingham Union, and the workhouses were at Gimingham and Sheringham. These were replaced by a new workhouse at West Beckham in 1850.
Hales, Jane; and Yaxley, Susan
"On the parish": recorded lives of the poor of Holt and district, 1780-1835.
[ISBN 0948400226, Dereham, Larks Press, 1994]

Schools

Gresham's School: History, pictures, etc.
Lee, Peter John: A catalogue of the Foundation Library: (with notes and an historical introduction).
[Holt, Gresham's School, 1965]
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton and Douglas, A.B.: Gresham's School, history and register, 1555-1954.
[Ipswich, 1955]
Simpson, James Herbert: Schoolmaster's Harvest: some findings of fifty years, 1894-1944.
(Gresham's School, including index).
[London, Faber and Faber, 1954]
Smart, Sue: When Heroes Die: a forgotten archive reveals the last days of the schoolfriends who died for Britain.
(Pupils of Gresham's School who died in World War 1, including index).
[ISBN 1859832563, Breedon, 2001]

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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