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Roydon

Roydon is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.

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The place

Roydon is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Harlow, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Hoddesdon and 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Epping, forming part of the border with Hertfordshire. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 3,074.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Roydon

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 18 km · London Luton (LTN), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 48 km
  • London → Roydon
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Roydon
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £18–23
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Roydon
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £19–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Roydon

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Roydon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    153 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    333 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    373 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    543 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    578 km

If you know how people move in Roydon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Roydon

Roydon is 28 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.