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# Longburton

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

[Plan a trip to Longburton](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Longburton) [From Bristol](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Longburton)

## Every way there

- 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)

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

[Read the note on Longburton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longburton)

What Longburton has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 54 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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: Yeovil, 10 km.

50.912°, -2.500°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Longburton 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/Longburton), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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