Badshot Lea has access in either direction to the A31 and A331 and is connected to railway stations in the nearby towns with regular bus services.

The village is part of the Blackwater Valley or Aldershot Urban Area, the thirtieth largest conurbation in the UK.

In 1967 the Badshot Lea Village school master and amateur archaeologist William (Billy) Rankine discovered the remains of a Neolithic Long Barrow (burial mound also known as a tumulus) here.

[6] Badshot Lea is close to the GHQ Line pill box fortifications built during World War II to defend London in the event of a successful German invasion of Britain in Operation Sea Lion.

It lies at the southern tip of the A331 (the Blackwater Valley Route) which connects the village to Farnborough and Camberley.

Swiftsure sea cadets centre, St Georges C of E Church and hall,[11] a cemetery, a pond dipping stage, an animal sanctuary, a working men's club and two pubs/inns, The Cricketers and The Crown.

One former quarry, operated by Hanson UK between the mid-1990s and 2010, was reopened as the 55 ha (140-acre) Tice's Meadow nature reserve by the Mayor of Farnham in 2018.

The Foundation Stone was laid on 23 August 1902 by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Viscount Middleton.

[citation needed] Following the demolition of the Old Parsonage, and construction of a new Vicarage in 1999, the funds released were used for the further development of the church.

[18] The village had drugs connected offences from 2005 to 2010, including stabbings,[19]dealing (in broad daylight),[20] and a cannabis factory.

[23] Badshot Lea has a temperate maritime climate, free from extreme temperatures, with moderate rainfall and often breezy conditions.

The nearest official weather station to Badshot Lea is Alice Holt Lodge.