Camberley can be reached by the A30, the M3 motorway and by train from London Waterloo station. There are small airports nearby at Blackbushe and Farnborough.
Immediately surrounding towns and villages include Bagshot, Deepcut, Farnborough, Frimley and Sandhurst. The Old Dean is a mini-town within Camberley.
Camberley is administered by Surrey County Council and Surrey Heath Borough Council. The parliamentary constituency in Surrey Heath and the MP is the Rt. Hon. Nicholas John Hawkins MP, a Conservative.
Camberley grew up around the gates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. It grew in size with the arrival of the branch-line railway (the main-line passes through nearby Deepcut but there is no stop). It was originally named Cambridge, the name being changed due to confusion with the better-known town of the same name in Cambridgeshire.