HOLDENHURST, a chapelry in the parish of
CHRISTCHURCH, liberty of WESTOVER, New Forest
(West) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles
(N. W. by W.) from Christchurch, containing 580 inhar
bitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to
the vicarage of Christchurch, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Winchester. The navigable river Stour
bounds the chapelry on the east and north.