Ayston is a Village in the county of Rutland.

Retail in Ayston

There are great places to visit near Ayston including some great towns, villages and lakes.

The area around Ayston's best towns can be found at Oakham.

Ayston is near some unmissable villages like Wakerley,

Rutland Water is one of Ayston's best, nearby lakes to visit in Ayston.

Ayston History

There are some historic monuments around Ayston:

• Bridge over River Chater
• Dovecot and arch, formerly lodge of Brooke House
• Moated site at Allexton
• Kirby Hall: an Elizabethan country house and gardens, including the remains of the medieval village of Kirby
• Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way
• Butter Cross and stocks
• Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
• Deserted medieval village on A6003, Snelston
• Moated site 1km south west of Rockingham Castle
• Site of abbey church and claustral buildings
• Rockingham Castle, shrunken medieval village, moat and warrens
• Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Bronze Age enclosure
• Lyddington Bedehouse: a medieval bishop's palace and post-medieval almshouse with moat, gardens, fishponds and cultivation remains
• Alstoe Moot and part of Alsthorpe deserted medieval village
• Manorial site west of St Gile's Church and medieval settlement west of Manor Farm
• Standing cross on The Green, 130m north west of The Bede House
• Earthwork in Morcott Spinney
• Bridge at Medbourne
• Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
• Exton Old Hall
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Beaumont Chase
• Market cross 10m west of Cross Farmhouse
• Martinsthorpe deserted medieval village