Town in Hertfordshire, England

Royston

Royston is a town and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Every way there

London → Royston
60 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Royston
75 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Royston
136 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
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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 Royston, 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 Royston has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 25 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

52.047°, -0.020°

It lies 18 miles (29 km) north of Hertford and 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Cambridge. The Greenwich Meridian runs through the eastern part of the town. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 17,444.

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