In the past, Bagshot served as an important staging post between London, Southampton and the West Country, evidenced by the original coaching inns still present in the village today.

Late Bronze Age settlements have been identified in the area, and iron smelting appears to have been a major 'industry' in the locality.

It had a Royal hunting lodge certainly through Stuart and Tudor times, now called Bagshot Park, which is now the residence of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh.

St Anne's Church was built in 1884[6] in a Gothic Revival style under the patronage of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught[7] who lived in the nearby Bagshot Park.

Curley Park Rangers, the youth football club, meet regularly and play on pitches in both Lightwater and Bagshot.

Swinley Forest, which borders Bagshot to the north, provides some of the best mountain biking in South-East England, with many off-road 'single-track' trails available as well as plenty of fire roads.

The A30 leaving Bagshot to the southwest for Camberley has a large roundabout on it called the Jolly Farmer after a public house that used to stand in its centre, now used as a Golfing Store.

At the 2024 General election, the [Surrey Heath UK Parliamentary constituency] also voted for Professor [Al Pinkerton] of the Liberal Democrats who gained a majority of 5640 over the Conservatives.