HOLFORD, a parish in, and forming one of five unconnected portions of, the hundred of WHITLEY, county of SOMERSET, 10 miles (W.N.W.) fromBridgwater, containing 240 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £5. 1. 5, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.