--- title: "Longburton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Longburton, United Kingdom: Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles (5 km) south of Sherborne. Nearby: Sherborne Castle…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longburton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longburton.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longburton), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Caundle_Marsh) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-longburton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Longburton) - Cardiff → Longburton 78 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-longburton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Longburton) - London → Longburton 178 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-longburton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Longburton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Longburton) 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 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 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 88 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 155 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 548 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 552 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 574 km If you know how people move in Longburton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clongburton&title=Longburton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flongburton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Longburton - [Holnest](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/holnest) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Caundle Marsh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caundle-marsh) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.9 km - [Haydon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haydon) village and civil parish in Dorset, England 3.8 km - [Folke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/folke) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 1.3 km - [North Wootton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-wootton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 1.9 km - [Lillington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lillington) hamlet in Dorset England 2 km [The place page for Longburton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/longburton) [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/longburton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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