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Roydon Gunn
Roydon may refer to: Places England *Roydon, Essex **Roydon railway station **Roydon Primary School **Roydon United Reformed Church *Roydon, King's Lynn and West Norfolk *Roydon, South Norfolk Australia *Roydon Island, Tasmania, Australia Names *Marmaduke Roydon (1583–1646), English merchant-adventurer, colonial planter and Royalist army officer *Mathew Roydon (died 1622), English poet *Roydon Hayes (born 1971), New Zealand cricketer *Matthew Clairmont alias Roydon, character in ''Shadow of Night'' *Diana Bishop alias Roydon, character in ''Shadow of Night'' See also * Royden (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon, Essex
Roydon is a village located in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Harlow, 3.5 miles (5.7 km) east of Hoddesdon and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) northwest of Epping, forming part of the border with Hertfordshire. The village lies on the Stort Navigation and River Stort. Roydon is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Ruindune'', and appears later as ''Reidona'' in ''c.'' 1130, as ''Reindon'' in 1204, and as ''Roindon'' in 1208. The village has a village shop, sub post office, pharmacy and church. The church, St Peter's, dates from the Middle Ages and was given Grade I listed status on 20 February 1967. Briggens House dating back to the 18th century was used as a forgery centre for the WW2 SOE. Transport Train The village is served by Roydon railway station on the West Anglia Main Line, with trains operated by Greater Anglia linking the village to London Liverpool Street and Cambridge. Bus Educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon Railway Station
Roydon railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Roydon in Essex, England. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is RYN. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia. History The station was designed by Francis Thompson and opened by the Northern and Eastern Railway in 1844. The main station building was abandoned by British Railways in 1978 and remained unoccupied until being converted into a restaurant. The station was given Grade II listed status on 30 April 1971. The station's signal box, built in 1876, is one of only two surviving examples of the GER Type I signal box. In 2016 the station's ticket office was demolished, and a waiting room was built on its foundations. Additional customer information screens, ticket machines, and improved CCTV and lighting were added at the same time. Services All services at Roydon are operated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon Primary School
Roydon may refer to: Places England *Roydon, Essex **Roydon railway station **Roydon Primary School **Roydon United Reformed Church *Roydon, King's Lynn and West Norfolk *Roydon, South Norfolk Australia *Roydon Island, Tasmania, Australia Names *Marmaduke Roydon (1583–1646), English merchant-adventurer, colonial planter and Royalist army officer *Mathew Roydon (died 1622), English poet *Roydon Hayes (born 1971), New Zealand cricketer *Matthew Clairmont alias Roydon, character in ''Shadow of Night'' *Diana Bishop alias Roydon, character in ''Shadow of Night ''Shadow of Night'' is a 2012 historical-fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the second book in the ''All Souls'' trilogy. As the sequel to the 2011 bestseller, '' A Discovery of Witches'', it follows the story of Diana Bishop, a ...'' See also * Royden (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon United Reformed Church
Roydon United Reformed Church is located in Harlow Road, Roydon, Essex, England. History Roydon United Reformed church originated in 1798, when James Brown of Harlow Harlow is a large town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Founded as a new town, it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire and London, Harlow occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the upp ... opened a Baptist meeting house in Harlow Road, Roydon. It was reconstituted in 1811 as an Independent church. In 1851 the original building was replaced with a new chapel and soon after that the church was affiliated to the Essex Congregational Union. A manse was built east of the church in 1868. In 1933 the church was altered and enlarged. It had 31 members in 1981. In 2011 the church held a celebration weekend, to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the formation of an Independent (Congregational) Church in Roydon. References {{Reflist, 2 Churches in Epping For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon, King's Lynn And West Norfolk
Roydon is a small village, civil parish and electoral ward east of King's Lynn in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 368 in 144 households at the 2001 census, the population of the village and ward being shown as 2,450 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. It is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Reidnua'' and in 1254 as ''Ridone''. The village was served by the Grimston Road railway station of the Midland & Great Northern Railway Company (the station was named after the nearby village of Grimston despite being in the centre of Roydon because, at the time of opening, Grimston's population was ten times that of Roydon). The station opened in 1879, and closed to passengers in 1959 (freight traffic continued to pass through the village until this section of the M&GN railway finally closed in 1968). Roydon today has a large common Common may refer to: Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon, South Norfolk
Roydon is a small village, parish and electoral ward in the county of Norfolk, England, about a mile west of Diss. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,358 in 981 households at the 2001 census, the population of both parish and ward increasing to 2,457 at the 2011 Census. It is mentioned in 1035 as ''Rygedune'', and as ''Regadona'' and ''Regheduna'' in the Domesday Book, and later in 1242 as ''Reydon''. In 1603 there were 124 communicants, and in 1736 there were 60 families, totalling 240 souls. In 1736 it was assessed for tax at 630 and a half pounds. Roydon's current village hall was built in 1988 on the site of a previous building. The exterior wall hosts a relief carving relocated from Aldrich Brothers brush factory, in Factory Lane, which was demolished in 1972 It also has a small village primary school, Roydon Primary that teaches 200 pupils from 4 to 11, Reception to Year 6 (Kindergarten to 5th Grade). Its church, St Remigius, is one of 124 existing round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon Island
Roydon Island is an island, with an area of 37 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Pasco Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait off the north-west coast of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group. Fauna Seabirds and waders recorded as breeding on the island include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. The metallic skink and White's skink are present.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. See also * List of islands of Tasmania Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an area of - 94.1% of the total land area of the state. The other islands have a combined area of , for a cumulative total of 99.75% o ... References Furneaux Group {{Tasmania-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marmaduke Roydon
Sir Marmaduke Roydon (also Rawdon and Rawden, with Royden a contemporary spelling) (1583 – 28 April 1646) was an English merchant-adventurer and colonial planter, known also as a Royalist army officer. Life The son of Ralph Roydon or Rawdon of Rawden Brandesby in Yorkshire, by Jane, daughter of John Brice of Stillington, he was baptised at Brandesby on 20 March 1583. At sixteen years of age he went to London, where he was apprenticed to Daniel Hall, a Bordeaux merchant, who sent him as his factor to France. He returned to London about 1610 and was elected a common councilman. Soon afterwards he was presented with the freedom of the Clothworkers' Company, and made captain of the city militia. In 1614 Roydon joined a mercantile venture (with John Buley, George Langam and William Skelton) to the New England coast, sending out two ships under Thomas Hunt and John Smith, which sailed from the Downs on 3 March 1614. He was also interested in the discovery of the North-West Passag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathew Roydon
Mathew Roydon (sometimes spelled Matthew) (died 1622) was an English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers. Life The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' identified him tentatively as the son of Owen Roydon who co-operated with Thomas Proctor in 1578 in the latter's ''Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions''; and as the Mathew Royden who graduated M.A. at Oxford on 7 July 1580. He was soon afterwards a prominent figure in literary society in London, and knew the poets of the day, including Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Lodge, and George Chapman. :s:Roydon, Matthew (DNB00) Roydon fell in with Marlowe, and he, Thomas Harriot, and William Warner are mentioned among those companions of the dramatist who shared his freethinking. Christopher Hill has suggested that Roydon may have been the author of ''Willobie His Avisa'' (1594), published by Henry Willobie (quite possibly pseudonymous but unidentified). The group around M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roydon Hayes
Roydon Leslie Hayes (born 9 May 1971) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played one One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ... in 1995. References * 1971 births Living people New Zealand One Day International cricketers New Zealand cricketers Northern Districts cricketers People from Paeroa Cricketers from Waikato {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of Night
''Shadow of Night'' is a 2012 historical-fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the second book in the ''All Souls'' trilogy. As the sequel to the 2011 bestseller, ''A Discovery of Witches'', it follows the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who comes from a long line of witches, and Matthew Clairmont, a long-lived vampire, as they unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript. Diana and Matthew travel back in time to 16th century London during the Elizabethan era. The book received generally mixed feedback from literary critics. Like its predecessor, ''A Discovery of Witches'', it was praised for its blend of history and fantasy. Some critics felt that the book had too many secondary characters and plot elements. Harkness had previously studied England's Tudor period, in 2007 publishing a non-fiction book about the scientific revolution in Elizabethan London, ''The Jewel House''. ''Shadow of Night'' was first published in hardcover on July 10, 2012, by Viking Press, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
