It comprises 16th- and 17th-century thatched cottages, a parish church (dedicated to St Mary the Virgin), two pubs, a primary school, shop, post office stores, beach café, hotel, garage, village hall, reading room a library.

The place was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bridetone,[2] it had 28 households and the lord of the manor was the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille.

[10][11][12] Burton Bradstock lies on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, which in the vicinity of the village comprises vertical cliffs up to 150 feet (45 m) high.

At Hive Beach there is a gap in the cliffs; the National Trust owns the land here and provide a car park.

The village has a frequent local bus service to Bridport via West Bay, and is also served by the X53 coastal bus service which runs east to Weymouth, Wareham and Poole and west to Bridport, Lyme Regis, Seaton and Exeter.