Holme
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holme¹
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From Middle English holm (“an island”), from Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.
noun holmes
- Alternative form of holm.holm
Holme²
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1987).
- A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5278).
- A hamlet in Messingham parish, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SE9206).
- A small village in Holme Valley parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1006).
- A river in West Yorkshire, England, which flows into the River Colne at Huddersfield.