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The parish church, dedicated to St John, and its churchyard dominate the village to the south
of the village green.
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In the 19th century, Robert Read and his wife were barred from attending church
for blasphemy until they repented and were allowed to return to the flock. Read was the
publican of the The Jolly Sailor which
then served nearby Throop.
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During the Middle Ages there was a refuge for lepers at Holdenhurst. Cottages in the village
were owned by the Mary Magdalene Hospital for Lepers established in Christchurch in 1317. The
colony here which was known as Courtie House and
whose location is unknown, consisted of a small house, a close of two standard acres of land and
an orchard.
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In William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of 1086, the village is recorded as '
Holeests ' meaning Holy Copse.
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Now Holdenhurst and adjacent Throop
have become overshadowed by the conurbation of Bournemouth but at the time of the formation of
the Hampshire Constabulary in 1839, Bournemouth
was described as a watering place policed by the
village constable of Holdenhurst. The first constable (PC Smith) was
appointed in 1856.
The Old School House
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The Teacher's House
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The school at the northern end of the lane to Holdenhurst served the village as well as
Throop.
The schoolteacher was paid £ 21 per year and paid
1 s. per week rent on the adjacent Schoolhouse.
On the opposite sideof the road to the Old Scoolhouse the Old Rectory which dates from 1833 when the
Rev. Hopkins (the incumbent of St John's Holdenhurst) built it for his asistant parish priest, the
Rev Biver. Further up the lane and adjoining the boundary wall of the Old Rectory stands the Old Forge.
Beyond the Old Forge stands a post box and we find a road junction - the left-hand turn travels to
Castle Lane East while that to the right follows the Stour upstream to the village of
Throop.
Holdenhurst Farmhouse
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Holdenhurst Farmhouse
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