--- title: "Burleston – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Burleston, United Kingdom: Burleston is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England. Nearby: Church of Saint John…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Athelhampton_Road_through_Burleston%2C_2024.jpg/3840px-Athelhampton_Road_through_Burleston%2C_2024.jpg" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Burleston Burleston is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England. ![Burleston](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Athelhampton_Road_through_Burleston%2C_2024.jpg/3840px-Athelhampton_Road_through_Burleston%2C_2024.jpg) Burleston · Wikimedia Commons The place Burleston is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 27. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Tolpuddle to form "Burleston and Tolpuddle". Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burleston), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Burleston 2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle The Church of Saint John the Evangelist is a Church of England parish church in Tolpuddle, Dorset. The church is a Grade I listed building. 1.9 km · Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 2. Church of Saint John the Evangelist St John's Church is a Church of England church in Tincleton, Dorset, England. It was designed by Benjamin Ferrey and built in 1849–50. 1.6 km · church building in Tincleton, West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tincleton) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Burleston **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Cardiff (CWL), 102 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 153 km\ - Bristol → Burleston 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-burleston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Burleston) - Cardiff → Burleston 101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-burleston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Burleston) - London → Burleston 175 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-burleston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Burleston) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Burleston) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Burleston Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burleston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - 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; that article was last edited 2025-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 72 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 172 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 570 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 572 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 573 km If you know how people move in Burleston – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cburleston&title=Burleston&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fburleston), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Burleston - [Puddletown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.9 km - [Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 1.9 km - [Woodsford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodsford) hamlet in south west Dorset, England 3.2 km - [Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 1.5 km - [Athelhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton) settlement in Athelhampton and Puddletown, Dorset, England 1 km [The place page for Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/burleston) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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