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Recreation and entertainment is well provided for in the town. The 14.37 acre (5.8 hectares) Bath Grounds off Station Road, have provision for cricket, football and bowls. Bands also play there in the summer months. The Royal Hotel (built as The Hastings Hotel in 1826-7) the old Station building, Ivanhoe Terrace and Rawdon Terrace are all reminders of the days when Ashby was a Spa Town and host to grand concerts and dances in the now demolished Ivanhoe Baths. Hood Park, off North Street has a fine Leisure Centre, an outdoor heated swimming pool, an all-weather surface, a children's play area with a purpose-built SkatePark and provision for football pitches. Other open spaces for football and outdoor recreation can be found at Western Park, off Tamworth Road and Westfields, off Moira Road.

Tennis is played at the Ashby Castle Club, off South Street and there is an excellent golf course at the Willesley Park Golf Club on Tamworth Road.

The Venture Theatre, officially opened in North Street in 1981, has a regular programme of entertainments, whilst Ivanhoe Community College has a wide range of vocational and non-vocational courses available. Both the Library and the Museum (established in 1981 in a cottage in Lower Church Street, and settled in its present home in 1991) in North Street provide education of yet another kind. There is also a useful leaflet - Walks Around Ashby de la Zouch - which provides ideas for rambles and the local Tourist Information Centre (which shares a building with the Library and Museum in North Street) is an invaluable help to both local and visitor alike.

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