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# Holnest

Holnest is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Holnest, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Holnest](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/holnest)

What Holnest has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 57 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Yeovil, 12 km.

50.887°, -2.489°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Holnest the local way

- 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. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holnest), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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