HOLT, a pleasant market-town in the county of Norfolk, giving its name to the hundred in which it is situated. It is 121 miles from London, has a good market on Saturday, and an endowed grammar-school for thirty boys under the patronage of the fishmongers' company of London, who present from it to a fellowship and scholarship at Sydney College, Cambridge. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1004, in 1811 to 1037, in 1821 to 1348, and in 1831 to 1622.