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Longburton

Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles (5 km) south of Sherborne.

The place

Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles (5 km) south of Sherborne. It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 524.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Longburton

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. 01
    Sherborne Castle

    Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul

    St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Caundle Marsh, Dorset, England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57.

    2.9 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Longburton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km
Stations
Sherborne railway station, 3.7 km
  • Bristol → Longburton
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Longburton
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
  • London → Longburton
    178 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £18–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Longburton

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 Longburton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: 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. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    155 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    548 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    574 km

If you know how people move in Longburton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Longburton

  • Holnestvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.2 km
  • Caundle Marshvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.9 km
  • Haydonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.8 km
  • Folkevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • North Woottonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Lillingtonhamlet in Dorset England2 km