Virginia Water is a commuter town or village in northern Surrey, home to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The place has much woodland and occupies a large minority of the Borough of Runnymede. Its name is shared with the lake on its western boundary with Windsor Great Park. Parts of the ward and post town touch motorways. Trumps Green and Thorpe Green touch the M3; the Thorpe part of Thorpe Green and Stroude touch the M25. Heathrow Airport is seven miles to the north-east.
Many of the detached houses are on the Wentworth Estate, the home of the Wentworth Club which has four golf courses. The Ryder Cup was first played there. It is also home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the professional golf tour. One of the houses featured in a headline in 1998—General Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest having unsuccessfully resisted extradition, the facing of a criminal trial in Chile.
In 2011 approximately half of the homes of the postcode district, which is narrower than the current electoral ward, were detached houses.