It is located in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

In the mid-19th century, it started to form a single urban area with Oudenaarde, but retained some rural parts.

[2] Bevere was frequently damaged by war due to its location near the city walls of Oudenaarde.

[4] The Vierschaar is a protected monument which served as an open air court of law in the Middle Ages.

Jurisdiction originally rested with the Count and Lords, but during the Middle Ages it shifted to the schout and schepenen who held an open air court underneath a tilia tree.