The county building official is Richard Bartell. 12300 Washington Highway, Ashland. The Hanover Parks and Recreation Department sponsors seven elementary school and three middle school youth summer programs and an array of youth sports clinics. Hanover sponsors or co-sponsors youth and adult athletic leagues with teams in basketball, volleyball, softball, football, soccer, baseball, wrestling and bowling. Adult fitness, enrichment classes and children's gymnastics programs are offered.
All parks are open from dawn to dusk throughout the year.
This 50-acre park surrounds the historic Garthright House and has a trail system, Civil War trenches and rifle pits. Hanover Wayside , located on Hanover Wayside Road off U.S. 301, five miles south of Hanover Courthouse. This is a 36-acre park featuring a picnic shelter, ball field, pond and nature trail. North Anna Battlefield Park , 75-acre park offering trench works with rifle pits, which are considered among most pristine Civil War earthworks in existence, on state Route 684, adjacent to the Martin Marietta Aggregates Quarry in Doswell. Poor Farm Park , 205-acre park with nature trails, picnic shelters, tot lot, mountain biking, horseshoe pits, beach volleyball courts, soccer fields and an amphitheater.