HOLMESLEY-WALK, a tract in the New Forest, Hants; on the South-western railway, 5 miles SE of Ringwood. It has a station, of the name of Holmesley, on the railway; and is partly in Ringwood parish, but mainly extra-parochial. The part in Ringwood parish comprises 25 acres; and the rest comprises 3, 255 acres, -includes Holmesley-Lodge, Holmesley Inclosure Cottage, and three Railway gate houses, -and had, in 1861, a pop. of 27.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))