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Grove is an unincorporated community in the southeastern portion of James City County in the Peninsula subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. Grove is located in almost the exact center of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, comprising Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, all linked by the Colonial Parkway. The area is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world.

Grove is located about 7 miles east of Williamsburg along U.S. Route 60 near the Kingsmill Resort and Busch Gardens Europe theme park, each developed by Anheuser Busch. Grove is bordered by the James River and separated from the Newport News city limits near Lee Hall by Skiffe's Creek.

Historic places in Grove include the archaeological site of Wolstenholme Towne, the administrative center of Martin's Hundred whose population of English colonists was decimated by the Good Friday attacks throughout the Virginia Colony during the Indian Massacre of 1622. It is also the location of Carter's Grove Plantation, established in 1755.

During the two World Wars, Grove became home to hundreds of people, mostly of African American heritage, whose families were uprooted from locations nearby in James City and York counties as large tracts of land and entire communities along the northern half of the Peninsula were taken by the Federal Government for military use. Those lands now comprise the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, the Cheatham Annex supply complex, and Camp Peary. During World War II, when racial segregation rules were in effect, many non-white U.S. Army personnel stationed at Fort Eustis in adjacent Warwick County established housing in the Grove Community.

Grove currently includes residential areas, churches, neighborhood retail businesses, a nursing home, day care facilities, a modern community center and a magnet school of the Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools (WJC). As of early 2008, many new homes were under construction. Along the southeastern edge, many available sites and frontage on the James River and Skiffe's Creek are zoned for industrial purposes, and have been attractive to developers, where the expansion on vacant land was ongoing.