Pirbright contains one buffered sub-locality, Stanford Common near the nation's farm animal disease research institute.

The village's grade II* listed medieval church has a large Boulder grave for explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

Pirbright has two communities: army training barracks and designated homes are north of a London main axis (south-west) railway and the slightly dispersed village is south.

Finally it was granted to Sir Anthony Browne, afterwards Viscount Montagu, with whose family it remained until the middle of the next century.

The locality saw development in the form of brick labourers' cottages with a few Georgian large homes, some with modest estates of land.

"[6] Pirbright's traditional churchyard contains the large block of granite, 11-feet high, marking the grave of British Empire soldier and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who died in London aged 63.

On Saturday 4 August 2007 it was announced that the strain of foot-and-mouth disease detected in cattle three miles (5 km) away was similar to that in use at the Pirbright site.

Professor Brian Spratt's report found that more likely than not the strain of the virus understandably came from the Merial vaccine production facility or the Pirbright Institute laboratory: whose shared "effluent pipes [leading to final small treatment plant were] not contained, as they should be as part of Category 4 containment at Pirbright.

"[8] This poor condition of pipes and incursion of trees in the site has since been rectified and significant investment (over £170 million) is taking place at Pirbright to provide new laboratory and animal facilities.

Initially playing in the Burrow Hill part of the village, the club soon moved to its ground on School Lane.