Ayston is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

The population of the village was less than 100 at the 2011 census and is included in the civil parish of Ridlington.

Ayston is part of Braunston & Belton ward which has one councillor on Rutland County Council.

[3] Ayston Hall is a 19th-century, Grade II listed, two-storey house constructed of ashlar with a stone-tiled roof and a three-bay frontage.

[5] He had inherited the land from his widowed mother, the wife of Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet.