Holt is a market town in the county of Norfolk, England. The town has a population of 3,550Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. "Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes.". It lies on high ground some three miles south of the North Sea coast at Cley and is twenty-one miles north-north-west of the city of Norwich.

Holt is best known in the rest of England for being the seat of Gresham's School, a long-established public school founded in 1555, originally for boys only but co-educational since 1974. The school's alumni include Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, Sir John Reith, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Lennox Berkeley, Stephen Spender, James Dyson, and Sienna Guillory.

Holt is noted for an abundance of Georgian buildings, many of its medieval buildings having been destroyed in a disastrous fire in the year 1708. However, it retains its Norman parish church, which is dedicated to St Andrew.

One mile to the east of the town centre is a terminus for the North Norfolk Railway, the other end of the line being at the sea-side resort of Sheringham. The former Holt town centre railway station was served by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which closed in 1963. Until a few years ago, a horse-bus service, the "Holt Flyer" ran between the Railway Tavern in the town centre and the new railway station, timed to connect with trains. Sadly the horse bus has now been replaced by a modern Routemaster bus.

Sports and recreation

Holt has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V

External links

• Gresham's School
• Holt Town Council
• Bakers & Larners of Holt
• Holt - A guided tour in pictures.

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