Holford is a village and civil parish in West Somerset within the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[5] Alfoxton House was built in the 18th century and occupied by the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, between July 1797 and June 1798, during the time of their friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[2] The 15th century Dodington Hall manor house contains the mechanism of a water driven spit in the cellar below the kitchen, and also has heraldic glass dating back to 1485 in parlour wing.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Holford Kelting, just north of the village, is a 5.3 hectares (13 acres) nature reserve run by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and is part of the Quantock Hills Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

[18] The video to Bryan Adams' hit song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" was filmed in a forest with a derelict silk mill in Holford Glen.