According to series tradition it is located 6 miles north-east of Ambridge in the Am Vale and is a historic market and wool town.
These typically English country-town features are complemented by more modern additions, such as Underwoods (an upmarket department store), Jaxx bar, which was previously a café both managed by Kenton Archer, and Ambridge Organics, the shop run by Helen Archer, who also makes the Borsetshire Blue cheese sold in Underwoods.
[1] As The Archers is usually taken to "exist" in a region centred on Evesham and somewhere not too far from the Malvern Hills and the edge of the Cotswolds, Borchester could be connected to Broadway, Tewkesbury or Pershore.
It has a mixture of trendy, "southern England" features such as wine bars and upmarket delis combined with some working-class neighbourhoods.
The Grundy family lived for a while in a substandard council flat in Borchester after being evicted from Grange Farm in 2000.