Holwell is a Town in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Holwell

There are great places to visit near Holwell including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

There are a several good towns in the Holwell area like Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum.

Jericho Weir is a great place to visit close to Holwell if you like waterfalls.

Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury are great places to visit near Holwell if you like villages.

Historic Buildings to visit near Holwell include The Cobb.

Holwell is near some unmissable historic monuments like King's Statue (King George III Statue),

There are a several good ancient sites in the Holwell area like Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.

Eggardon Hill is one of Holwell's best, nearby hills to visit in Holwell.

Places near Holwell feature a number of interesting castles including Corfe Castle.

Holwell is near some unmissable ruins like Corfe Castle,

Places near Holwell feature a number of interesting airports including Bournemouth Airport.

Holwell History

There are some historic monuments around Holwell:

• Two bowl barrows on Ridge Hill 770m south of Revels Farm
• Churchyard cross
• Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
• Settlement on Dickley Hill
• Earthworks on Giant Hill
• Bowl barrow 900m north west of Lower Farm
• Round barrow on Ellston Hill
• Lyscombe Farm chapel
• Round barrow on Church Hill
• Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
• Earthwork on Church Hill
• Medieval standing cross near the junction of the High Street and Gold Street, 240m south east of St Mary's Church
• Settlement and field system on Black Hill
• Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
• Cerne Abbey, site of, including gatehouse, guesthouse and wine house (barn)
• Platform barrow 300m south west of Lane Cottages
• Site of Roman villa NNE of Fifehead Mill
• Field system on Seldon Hill
• Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
• Field system and settlement on West Hill, Plush
• Chapel W of Manor Farm
• Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
• Small multivallate hillfort called Rawlsbury Camp
• Roman site by Pinford Lane
• Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
• Melcombe Horsey deserted village
• Cerne Park boundary bank
• Tithe barn (uninhabited portion) at Barton Farm
• Bowl barrow on Farm Hill 620m west of Minterne Parva Farm
• Round barrow on Black Hill
• Hill figure called The Giant
• Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
• Sherborne Abbey, remains of
• Promontory fort on Barrow Hill
• The Conduit Cross
• Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill, 500m north of Castle Hill Cottages
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Round barrow on Dickley Hill
• High Cank, a hengi-form monument 520m north of Up Cerne Manor House
• Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
• Early Medieval and Medieval urban remains, Milborne Port
• Camp on Nettlecombe Tout
• Remains of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Sherborne Old Castle
• Bowl barrow on Little Minterne Hill, 1km north east of Minterne Parva Farm
• Field system and settlement on Watcombe Plain
• Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
• Bowl barrow on Wancombe Hill 380m south west of southern corner of Sherriffs Wood
• Earthwork in Dogbury Plantation