Bagshot is a village at the north western edge of the county. The first mention of the village (as Bagsheta) date to 1165 though there has been settlement in the area from before the Romans. Bagshot was located in a royal forest, a royal hunting lodge now the site of Bagshot Park, the residence of Prince Edward.
During the Elizabethan age was on the main stage coach route from London to the West Country and had a number of staging inns. The village gained a railway station in 1878, it's parish church dedicated to St Anne was built in 1884. Being close to Aldershot, much of the land around the village is owned by the Ministry of Defence.
