Longburton
Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles (5 km) south of Sherborne.
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.
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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.
- 01Sherborne 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 - 02Parish 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 → Longburton60 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Longburton78 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
- London → Longburton178 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £18–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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If you know how people move in Longburton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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