Village in Essex, England

Roydon

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

Every way there

London → Roydon
31 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4–6
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Roydon
154 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £18–23
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Roydon, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Roydon has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 18 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Harlow, 5 km.

51.773°, 0.040°

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.

How locals move

Getting around Roydon the local way

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. Last edited 2026-04.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Routemastermatt (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.