Holwell is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south of Burford in West Oxfordshire.

[1] During the time that Robert de Chesney was Bishop of Lincoln (1148–66), land at Holwell was given to the Cistercian Abbey at Bruern.

[4] The latter rebuilding was designed by the architect Walter Mills of Banbury, using a Gothic Revival interpretation of Perpendicular Gothic.

[4] St Mary's parish is now part of the Benefice of Shill Valley and Broadshire, which includes also the parishes of Alvescot, Black Bourton, Broadwell, Broughton Poggs, Filkins, Kelmscott, Kencot, Langford, Little Faringdon, Shilton and Westwell.

[5] The Cotswold Wildlife Park is within the ecclesiastical parish of Holwell, and the bordering civil parish of Broadwell.