The town sits on WV 9, roughly 13 miles east of Berkeley Springs.

In addition to its legal definition, Hedgesville has come to be the common name for the large and sparsely inhabited area of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle bordered by the Potomac River to the North and East, a southern border defined roughly by an imaginary line from the city of Martinsburg to the tip of Virginia, and Berkeley Springs to the West.

[6] The Hedgesville area was subsequently settled by William Snodgrass, who arrived in the American colonies in 1700.

William Snodgrass is buried in the cemetery of Tuscarora Presbyterian Church in Berkeley County, West Virginia.

Officially established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 11, 1836,[7] the Town of Hedgesville was laid out in 1832 along the old Warm Springs Road (now West Virginia Route 9) and named for the prominent local Hedges family.

WV 9 travels southeastward to Martinsburg and provides connections to Interstate 81.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.13 square miles (0.34 km2), all land.

About 2.8% of families and 5.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.3% of those under the age of eighteen and 9.7% of those 65 or over.