Melbury Bubb is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of the town of Sherborne.

It is sited on Cornbrash limestone[2] beneath the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.

The A37 trunk road between Dorchester and Bristol passes about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the west, on the other side of Bubb Down Hill.

[3] Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 40.

[1] The parish church of St Mary has a 15th-century tower but the rest of the building was largely rebuilt in a 19th-century restoration.