--- title: "Holnest – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Holnest, United Kingdom: Holnest is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. Nearby: Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/holnest" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/holnest.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Holnest Holnest is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holnest), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Parish 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Caundle_Marsh) 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 Holnest **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 156 km\ - Bristol → Holnest 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-holnest) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Holnest) - Cardiff → Holnest 82 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-holnest) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Holnest) - London → Holnest 179 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-holnest) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Holnest) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Holnest) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dorset), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 86 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 156 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 550 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 554 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 575 km If you know how people move in Holnest – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cholnest&title=Holnest&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fholnest), and the note gets an entry. 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