Detached stone and brick houses set back behind hedges, a scatter of trades vans parked on driveways, and not much passing traffic — that's the visual register of Holt before you've even checked a single number. It reads as settled rather than sleepy: a village where people have generally been for a while and intend to stay. That sense of permanence shows up in the numbers too. The median age sits a decade above the national figure, and the housing stock backs it up — this is overwhelmingly a detached, freehold sort of place, nineteen of the last twenty sales going to owner-occupiers rather than landlords, with a median sale price around £457,500. That's well above both the national and Wiltshire figures, and detached homes here fetch considerably more than the national detached average. A board outside a house on one of these lanes is advertising space and permanence, not a starter flat — there's essentially no leasehold and no new-build churn to speak of. Against Wiltshire as a whole, prices run about 45% higher, which places Holt among the pricier corners of a county that isn't cheap to begin with. For schooling, Holt Voluntary Controlled Primary School and St Mary's Broughton Gifford both carry Good Ofsted ratings, solid rather than exceptional, and with only one school actually inside the village boundary, families here are used to looking a little further afield for secondary options. Green space is modest in scale — a handful of small plots rather than sprawling parkland — but it's the kind of place where a walk after the shops shuts is genuinely part of the rhythm, not an aspiration. What stands out more is the safety picture: an A grade, and a crime count so low in absolute terms that the "384% above Wiltshire" comparison is really a statement about how little happens here at all, not a warning sign — four incidents a year against a wider Wiltshire rate makes any percentage swing look dramatic. The one crime category that does show up, violence and sexual offences, makes up over half of that small total, which in a village this size usually means one or two isolated incidents rather than a pattern to worry about. Broadband is decent without being exceptional — two-thirds full fibre coverage, which is fine for home working but not the fastest tier you'll find in bigger towns nearby. This suits people who've already done the commuting years and want out of them, or who work from home and don't need to be near a station most days — transport here scores well for a village of this size, but it's about local connectivity rather than a fast line into a city. It suits buyers with equity rather than first-time buyers, and families who are happy with a Good primary and a longer school run after that. What it doesn't suit is anyone chasing nightlife, density, or rapid change — Holt's whole character is built on staying exactly as it is.