After my Burston trip mentioned elsewhere, I decided to cycle home via Aston-by-Stone, a place I haven't visited since the one time I went there in the late 70s.
It's well worth a look, although the few natives that I encountered seemed a little 'Royston Vasey', at least to me.
It does have a couple of nice churches.
This is the C of E Saint Saviours.
Aston, like Great Haywood, is unusual in having an old Catholic church, Saint Michael Archangel, a rare thing outside a town in England.
Not an easy building to get a good picture of.
From there, I cycled alongside the A34 until I could nip down the lane towards Enson, then up to Marston and back along Common Road.