HOLT-CASTLE, (Worcestershire) on the r. Severn, near Droitwich, anciently bel. to the Beauchamps Es. of Warwick. From them it went, by marriage, to the Paunceforts and Wyshams, as it did from them afterwards to the Penistons and Guises. In the R. of Q. Eliz. it was the estate of Sir John Bourn; from whom it descended to the Bromleys, Sir Tho. Bromley, her Ld.- Chanc. having purchased it; but it is since passed to the Bromleys of Cambridgeshire.