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North Holmwood

North Holmwood is a residential area on the outskirts of Dorking, in Surrey, England.

North Holmwood
North Holmwood · Wikimedia Commons
The place

North Holmwood is a residential area on the outskirts of Dorking, in Surrey, England. The village is accessible from the A24, the village's historic heart is the road Spook Hill. The 2011 census for the broader area Holmwoods shows a population of 6,417 and that North Holmwood forms part of the Dorking Built-up Area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Holmwood

8 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
    Dorking

    Dorking is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi south-west of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre.

    2.3 km · historic market town in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Betchworth Castle

    Betchworth Castle is a ruined medieval fortified manor house in the north of the semi-rural parish of Brockham, Surrey, England. It is built on a sandstone spur overlooking the western bank of the River Mole.

    3.3 km · castle in Brockham, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dorking Cockerel

    The Dorking Cockerel is a sculpture on Deepdene roundabout in Dorking, Surrey, England. It depicts a male Dorking chicken, which were historically an important part of the town's economy.

    2.6 km · public sculpture in Dorking, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Joseph's Church, Dorking

    St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Dorking, Surrey. It was founded in 1872 with help from the Duke of Norfolk.

    1.8 km · church in Surrey, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Martin's Church, Dorking

    St Martin's Church is an Anglican parish church in Dorking, Surrey. It is a Grade II* listed building and surviving parts of the structure date back to the Middle Ages.

    2.4 km · church in Mole Valley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Deepdene Terrace

    Deepdene Terrace is a 4-hectare nature reserve south-east of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    1.8 km · park · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Milton Court

    Milton Court, at the far west of the town of Dorking, is a 17th-century country house in Surrey. The court was expanded and substantially rebuilt by the Victorian architect William Burges and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · 16th-century country house near Dorking, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Milton Heath and The Nower

    Milton Heath and The Nower is a 16-hectare nature reserve west of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council.

    2.2 km · park · 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.

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Getting to North Holmwood

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 12 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 74 km
Stations
Dorking railway station, 3.2 km · Dorking Deepdene railway station, 3 km · Dorking West railway station, 2.9 km · Holmwood railway station, 3.5 km
  • Luton, Luton → North Holmwood
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → North Holmwood
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £4–5
  • Bristol → North Holmwood
    160 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Holmwood

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 North Holmwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, 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

    90 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    303 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    428 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    616 km

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

Around it

Next door to North Holmwood

North Holmwood is 36 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brockhamvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England3.5 km
  • Westcottvillage in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, United Kingdom3 km
  • Holmwoodparish in Surrey, England1.5 km
  • South Holmwoodvillage in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Coldharbourhamlet in Surrey, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Pixhamvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.2 km