Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a market town and a parish. It lies 20 miles north-west of Leicester city, 14 miles south of Derby, 17 miles north of Hinckley and 118 miles north of London. The parish is one of the largest in the county at 8,983 acres, although it has been as small as 3,949 acres in 1911.

For centuries the village consisted primarily of one fine street. If you are planning a visit:

• Transport by canal is no longer possible on the Ashby Canal.
   
• Passenger rail service was terminated in September, 1964. Freight trains still run.
   
• Oliver MILLS has a photograph of the Train Station on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016. The station has been converted into a retail establishment.
   
• The East Midlands airport is 9 miles to the north.
   

The Leicester Mercury site has local and community information.

The Leicestershire County Council website has a section for Leisure and Community.

Leicestershire Parish Councils have pages for many councils, accessed through interactive maps.

• English Heritage are responsible for the care and repair of many buildings of historic importance. The Historic England Archive  (previously the National Monuments Record) is English Heritage's public archive and is the home of around 10 million items covering England's buildings, archaeology and maritime sites. English Heritage's ambitious Images of England initiative aims to put a photograph of every listed building in England on the internet.
• The Badger's Heritage website features many pen and ink drawings of churches, schools, pubs, hotels, bridges, locks, mills, cottages & villages in Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
• Destination England from Lonely Planet.
• There are many links on the (Internet Archive snapshot from 2018) England's Buildings webring.
• ViewFinder - an online image resource for England's history provided by Historic England.
• The England in Particular website from Common Ground encourages the study of our own localities.

• Descriptions of the county and its towns and parishes from different periods can be found in trade directories from the early 19th century onwards - see Directories.
• Travel Writing - transcriptions of a number of books describing early travels in Britain, from Vision of Britain.
• The U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens provided by Landscapes & Gardens at the University of York.
• The complete texts of Defoe's Tour of Great Britain (1778), Thompson's Tour of England and Scotland (1785) and Stebbing's Tour of the west of England. Made available by The Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and University Library.
• Geograph British Isles - "aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles".
• Historical Aerial Photography - "an unsurpassed collection of information about old aerial photographs of the UK, from the 40's to the 90's..."
• Britain From Above - "the unique Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953".
• Round the Coast scanned photographs from "An album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interest in Great Britain and Ireland" (George Newnes Ltd., 1895)" provided by by Rosemary and Stan Rodliffe.
• A modern map of the United Kingdom.