Cherhill is located in the western foothills of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

[2] On a clear day, the 840 ft (260 m) summit offers fine views, up to 25 miles, with the water tower at Tetbury in Gloucestershire visible.

[citation needed] Atop the tall hill to the north of the village, opposite to Cherhill Downs, it is said to be possible to see the Severn crossings to South Wales, 38 miles (61 km) to the west.

[citation needed] Cherhill lies on an old coaching road, now the A4, which runs from central London to Bristol.

Its nearest railway station is Chippenham on the Great Western Main Line, which is a stop for services between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads.

The church is old but very good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.The Lansdowne Monument, or Cherhill Monument, is a 125-foot stone obelisk erected in 1845 by the Third Marquis of Lansdowne on Cherhill Down in honour of his ancestor Sir William Petty.

Near the top of Cherhill Down stands Oldbury Camp or Oldbury Castle (not to be confused with sites having similar names in Somerset and Kent), which began as a Bronze Age enclosure and was enlarged in the Iron Age to become a hillfort.

The Cherhill Gang was a notorious group of highway men who operated in the 18th century on the London to Bath main road (A4) which passes through the village – they were noted for their robbery technique of attacking the carriages of rich Londoners while completely naked, thus shocking passengers into handing over their money and also making it harder to identify them.

A painting depicting one such attack can be seen in the Black Horse pub, on the A4 main road in the village.

Consisting of a vertical sarsen stone inside a face of Roman numerals, it symbolises the passage of time.