English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Royston

Parish in the County of Hertfordshire

Etymology

Formerly partly in Cambridgeshire, partly in Hertfordshire. Transferred wholly to the latter county in 1897.

Major Settlements

Other places in this Parish

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