Holt, Norfolk

Holt is a market town in the county of Norfolk, England. The town has a population of 3,550{{ref|population}}. It lies on high ground approximately 3 miles south of the North Sea coast at Cley-next-the-sea and it is twenty-one miles north-north-west of Norwich.

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Town - Norfolk, England - Population - North Sea - Norwich

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Holt is noted for the abundance of Georgian buildings, many of its medieval buildings having been destroyed in a fire in 1708.

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The Norman parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.

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Norman - St Andrew

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Holt is known for Gresham's School, an independent school founded in 1555, whose alumni include

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Gresham's School - 1555 - Alumni

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Britten, Auden, Sir John Reith, Sir Alan Hodgkin and James Dyson.

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Britten - Auden - Sir John Reith - Sir Alan Hodgkin - James Dyson

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One mile to the east of the town centre is a terminus for the North Norfolk Railway, the other being Sheringham. The original (town centre) railway station was served by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which closed in 1963.

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Terminus - North Norfolk Railway - Sheringham - Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway - 1963

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