Holnest
Holnest is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.
Holnest is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Blackmore Vale 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Sherborne. It is a scattered village, sited on Oxford clay which is drained by a small stream called The Cam. The A352 main road passes through the village. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the parish is 220. In the 2011 national census the population of Holnest parish combined with the small parish of Lillington to the north was 342; figures have so far not been published for Holnest parish alone.
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Worth seeing in and around Holnest
One place 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.
- 01Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul
St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Caundle Marsh, Dorset, England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57.
4 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Holnest
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 156 km
- Bristol → Holnest64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Holnest82 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
- London → Holnest179 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £19–25
- 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 Holnest
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 Holnest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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