Holmesfield
Holmesfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire.

Holmesfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 971. The name "Holmesfield" means "raised pasture-land" and is of Norse and Anglo-Saxon origin. Viking influences are also evident with many road names suffixed by "gate", the old Norse word for "way".
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Worth seeing in and around Holmesfield
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St Peter, Greenhill
St Peter's Greenhill is a Parish Church in the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield located in the Greenhill area of the city. The church was built between 1964 and 1965 to serve the housing development that was built at what was then the edge of Sheffield.
3.9 km · church · Wikipedia - 02St John the Baptist's Church, Dronfield
St John the Baptist’s Church, Dronfield is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Dronfield, Derbyshire.
3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Dronfield Civic Hall
Dronfield Civic Hall is a municipal building in the Civic Centre in Dronfield, a town in Derbyshire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of Dronfield Town Council and also operates as a community events venue.
2.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 04St Swithin’s Church, Holmesfield
St Swithin's Church is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Holmesfield, Derbyshire.
200 m · Grade II listed church in Holmesfield, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Barlow Woodseats Hall
Barlow Woodseats Hall is a Grade II* listed manor house situated at Barlow Woodseats, on the edge of the village of Barlow, in Derbyshire. It remains the only manor house in the Parish of Barlow, and the current house dates from the early 17th century, although there are much earlier origins to before 1269.
2.8 km · historic building in Barlow, England · Wikipedia - 06Dronfield Manor
Dronfield Manor is an early 18th-century manor house situated at Dronfield, Derbyshire, which is occupied by the town library. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.9 km · Grade II listed building in Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, used as a library · Wikipedia
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Getting to Holmesfield
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 51 km · East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 64 km
- Stations
- Dore and Totley railway station, 3.6 km · Dronfield railway station, 3.3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Holmesfield52 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holmesfield45 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Holmesfield56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Holmesfield
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Holmesfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Holmesfield
Holmesfield is 10 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dronfieldtown and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.5 km
- Barlowvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.8 km
- Dorevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Dronfield Woodhousesuburb in Dronfield, Derbyshire, UK1.4 km
- Totleysuburb of Sheffield2.2 km
- Cowleyvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom1.8 km