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Holmesfield

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

Holmesfield
Holmesfield · Hayden A. N. Goult
The place

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".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St 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
  2. 02
    St 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
  3. 03
    Dronfield 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
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    Barlow 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
  6. 06
    Dronfield 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Holmesfield
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holmesfield
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Holmesfield
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    290 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    345 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    380 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    407 km

If you know how people move in Holmesfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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