The village High Street was the main north–south road from Marlborough to Andover, now the A346 primary route, until a bypass was built to the west in 1991.

A more minor route from Pewsey to Hungerford and the M4 (designated A338 to the east and B3087 to the west) passes to the south of the village.

Burbage lies in the heart of the North Wessex Downs, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[6] The Kennet and Avon Canal, completed in 1810, crosses the parish just north of the village, where it passes through the Bruce Tunnel.

The GWR built Savernake Low Level north of the village, above the canal tunnel; British Railways closed it in 1966 but the line remains in use.

The 19th-century buildings (designated Grade II listed in 1988)[9] were closed in 1989 upon the opening of the new school, and became a private residence.

The present church retains only the tower and porch of the earlier building, and is Grade II* listed.

[13] A small Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built at Eastcourt in 1822, and replaced by a larger building on the High Street in 1906.