Burleston

Burleston is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England.

Every way there

Bristol → Burleston
81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
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Cardiff → Burleston
101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22
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London → Burleston
175 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £18–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Burleston, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Burleston has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 77 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesRo-Ro 3, 23 km, Brittany Ferries; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Weymouth, 17 km.

50.740°, -2.320°

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".

How locals move

Getting around Burleston the local way

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. Last edited 2025-08.

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