Holwell
Holwell is a village and a civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 3 miles north of Hitchin, near the Bedfordshire border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 425 residents
- Description: village and a civil parish in North Hertfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Holwell, Hertfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter (C of E) at Corner with Holwell Road and Henlow.
Henlow
Aerodrome
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Henlow or more simply RAF Henlow is a Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, equidistant from Bedford, Luton and Stevenage. It houses the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine and the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group, and was home to the Signals Museum, which closed in June 2024. Henlow is situated 2 miles north of Holwell.
Church of St Mary (Church of England)
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary (Church of England) is situated 1½ miles southwest of Holwell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Stondon and Pirton.
Lower Stondon
Village
Lower Stondon is a small village in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located close to the border with Hertfordshire, around 2.5 miles south-west of Henlow.
Pirton
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pirton is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 3 miles north-west of the town of Hitchin, and adjoins the border with Bedfordshire. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,452.
Ickleford
Village
Photo: OLU, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ickleford is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies immediately north of the town of Hitchin, from which it is separated by the River Oughton.
Holwell
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Holwell, North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.9857° or 51° 59′ 9″ northLongitude
-0.30398° or 0° 18′ 14″ westPopulation
425Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)Open location code
9C3XXMPW+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 29359057OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2646690Wikidata ID
Q5884860
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Holwell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Holwell”
- Dutch: “Holwell, Hertfordshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هولويل”
- French: “Holwell”
- Irish: “Holwell”
- Ladin: “Holwell (Bedfordshire)”
- Ladin: “Holwell”
- Polish: “Holwell (Hertfordshire)”
- Polish: “Holwell”
- Swedish: “Holwell, Hertfordshire”
- Swedish: “Holwell”
- Turkish: “Holwell, Hertfordshire”
- Welsh: “Holwell, Swydd Hertford”
- “Holwell”
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Highlights include John Rand Village Hall and New Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Holwell”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.