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Encyclopedia Britannica



ROYSTON

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 795 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROYSTON , a market town in the Hitchin parliamentary division of
Hertfordshire
 , England, close to the border of Cambridgeshire, 48 m. N. of London by the
Cambridge
  branch of the
Great
  Northern railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 3517. The
church
  of St John the Baptist is mainly Early
English
 . There are a market
house
 , and institute with library and museum. Beneath a
street
  in the town is a curious example of a hermit's cave, excavated in the chalk, and containing rude carvings of the crucifixion and other sacred subjects. It was discovered in 1742. The town lies on the Roman Ermine
Street
 , at the point where it strikes from the hills across the plain, and its straight course is deflected slightly W. Roman
relics
  have been found, and several barrows and earth-mounds occur on the neighbouring hills. A monastery of Augustinian canons was founded here towards the close of the 12th century, but there are no remains.


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