Holcombe is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, set among rolling farmland on the fringes of the Mendip Hills. The landscape still shows traces of the Somerset Coalfield with rows of former miners' cottages and reclaimed pit sites that give the village a quietly industrial past alongside its rural character.
Today the community combines farming with commuter life - many residents work in Bath or Bristol - and local life centres on a parish church, village hall and occasional fairs; quiet lanes and public footpaths make it popular with walkers keen to explore both countryside and the county's social history.
Postcode districts covering Holcombe
Most populated places nearby
- Bristol 15.7 miles
- Bath 10.2 miles
- Weston-super-Mare 21.5 miles
- Kingswood and Fishponds 15.2 miles
- Yeovil 22.4 miles
- Bridgwater 24.4 miles
- Trowbridge 12.7 miles
- Chipping Sodbury 20.3 miles
- Chippenham 21.1 miles
- Yate 20.5 miles
- Frome 5.9 miles
- Portishead 20.9 miles
Neighbouring places
- Holcombe Built-up area 0.2 miles
- Stratton-on-the-Fosse Built-up area 0.9 miles
- Coleford Built-up area 1.2 miles
- Chilcompton Built-up area 1.8 miles
- Stoke St. Michael Built-up area 1.9 miles
- Kilmersdon Parish 2 miles
- Leigh-on-Mendip Parish 2 miles
- Midsomer Norton Redfield Ward 2.4 miles
- Westfield Parish 2.5 miles
- Buckland Down Built-up area 2.7 miles
- Mendip Central and East Ward 2.7 miles
- Midsomer Norton Built-up area 2.7 miles
Example postcodes in Holcombe
BA3 5FB, BA3 5DP, BA3 5DZ, BA3 5ET, BA3 5DE, BA3 5EB, BA3 5DX, BA3 5HA, BA3 5ZD … See all
Transport links
- Bristol Airport 14.1 miles
- Cardiff Airport 39 miles
- Cranmore Railway Station 4.3 miles
- Cranmore West Railway Station 4.5 miles
Hotels near Holcombe Ad
- Holcombe Inn 5 0.2 miles
- Best Western Plus Centurion Hotel 4 2 miles
- Charlton House 4 5 miles
- Radstock Hotel Near Bath 3 3.3 miles
- Mad Swans in The Mendips 3.7 miles
- The George at Nunney 3 4.9 miles
- The Old Station Inn 3 5 miles
- The Natterjack Inn 8.6 miles
- The Hideaway 4.7 miles
- The Seven Stars 3 5.5 miles
Local points of interest
- Orchardleigh Estate Historic site 6.6 miles
- Mendip Hills Hill 7.9 miles
- Longleat Country house 9.5 miles
- Twerton Park Stadium 9.7 miles
- King Alfred's Tower Historic site 10.3 miles
- Roman Baths Historic site 10.4 miles
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Museum 10.5 miles
- Jane Austen Centre Museum 10.5 miles
- Fashion Museum Museum 10.7 miles
- Oaks of Avalon Archaeological site 11.4 miles
- Stourhead Estate 11.9 miles
- Bath Racecourse Recreation 12.1 miles