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Royston
Adjacent Parishes: Barkway, Bassingbourn (Cambs), Melbourn (Cambs), Reed, Therfield
It is partly in the Odsey Hundred of Hertfordshire, and partly in the Armingford Hundred of Cambridgeshire. It is in the Royston Union
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Royston Church |
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The town is on the Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire border and the Union covered parts of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex. In Hertfordshire it included Ashwell, Barkway, Barley, Hinxworth, Kelshall, Nuthampstead (part of Barkway), Reed, Royston and Therfield. In Cambridgshire it includes Abington-in-the-Clay (or Abington Pigotts), Barington, Bassingbourn, Foulmire, Foxton, Guilden Morden, Kneesworth, Litlington, Melbourn, Meldreth, Royston Shepreth, Shingay, Steeple Morden, Thriplow, Wendy and Whaddon. In Essex it includes Great Chishall, Little Chishall and Heydon. The Workhouse was in the Baldock Road, Royston.
The High Street, Royston, 1890
from Hertfordshire
- A Photographic Record
Book: Fragments of Two Centuries - published 1893
Book: A History of Royston - first published in 1897
 Royston Church from S.E. - Robert H. Clark's Series posted 1907 |
 Parish Church, Royston Robert H. Clark's Series No 42 |
There are many other views of Royston and District published by Robert H Clark.
Royston War Memorial - postcard - no publisher or date info
Book: Royston 1900 - an account of the market town as it was in 1900
Book: Old Royston - Volumes I and II - a collection of photographs published in the 1990s by the Royston Museum
Kneesworth Street Congregational Church, Royston
Card by Robert
H Clark
For soldiers named see War
Memorials
Schools and Education: The Home for Little Girls
Web Site: The Royston and District Family History Society gives details of the society. Their publications include memorial inscriptions, burial indexes, and indexes of the births, marriages and Deaths published in the local paper, the Royston Crow.
Royston Cave - Robert H.
Clark Real
Photographic Series
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Quick links to
extra postcard images. click on thumbnail picture |
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 Chapel. Royston |
 Royston High Street |
 Royston Church Multiview |
 Kneesworth Street |
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See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated June 2008
