Holderness is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

In 1751, Thomas Shepard submitted a petition on behalf of 64 grantees to colonial Governor Benning Wentworth for 6 miles square on the Pemigewasset River.

The governing council accepted, and the town was named after Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness.

As proprietor of half the town, Samuel Livermore intended to create at New Holderness a great estate patterned after those of the English countryside.

With water power to operate mills, the southwestern corner of town developed into an industrial center, to which the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad entered in 1849.

But the mill village would be at odds with the agricultural community, especially when denied civic amenities including gaslights and sidewalks.

Today, Holderness remains a popular resort area, where in 1981 the movie On Golden Pond was filmed.

In 1924, pioneer ornithologist Katharine (Clark) Harding Day studied a breeding population of the veery (Catharus fuscescens) in Holderness.

The town has multiple properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places: