HOLME (BENET-ST.), a hamlet in the parish of HORNING, hundred of TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Acle. The population is returned with Horning. This place is stated to have been given by a petty prince, called Horn, to a religious fraternity, about the year 800, who, with a chapel built here by them, and dedicated to St. Benedict, were destroyed by the Danes, in 870: the chapel and houses were afterwards rebuilt by a person named Wolfric, and were elevated into a Benedictine abbey by Canute, about 1020, .the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £677. 9. 8.