Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLM, or Holme

HOLM, or Holme, a word signifying an alluvial level, a meadow, or an inclosed flat field, and much used, both alone and compoundedly, in topographical nomenclature.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a word signifying an alluvial level, a meadow, or an inclosed flat field"
Place names: HOLM     |     HOLME     |     HOLM OR HOLME