[5] Clanfield is a popular area for walkers, with Queen Elizabeth Country Park being next to the village.

[9] Clanfield was historically a small farming community centred about the church of St James, that dates from 1305 and was rebuilt in 1875 and contains two ancient medieval bells.

The South Downs National Park borders Clanfield on three sides (east, north and west) and includes a large part of the undeveloped part of the village to the north (the former Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).

Clanfield is in the newly (2007) created Meon Valley constituency for elections to the House of Commons.

Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was in the South East England constituency for elections to the European Parliament.

South Lane Meadow has a cricket ground, and Peel Park has football pitches.

The rebuilt Rising Sun in the old village, the Hampshire Hog (previously Hogs Lodge) on the outskirts of the parish near the A3 and the famous Bat and Ball Inn, in Hyden Farm Lane, opposite the "Cradle of Cricket", Broadhalfpenny Down cricket ground.

Originally a nineteenth-century building, in 1969 the Rising Sun achieved fame as the pub that was built in one day.