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![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

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

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## Every way there

- 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)

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

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 77 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 3, 23 km, Brittany Ferries; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no 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 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. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burleston), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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