The idea of running characters was taken a stage further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered around the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively.

The choreographer was Royston Maldoom, the theatrical set and costume designer was Graham Bowers, and the lighting designer was David Hersey.

The television programme for which they are best known, although officially labelled a sitcom, was initially more sketch-based, linked together by their common setting: the fictional village of Royston Vasey, based on the town of Alston, Cumbria and set somewhere in the north of England.

He was imprisoned three times: in 1645 for an injudicious preface to his Golden Grove ; again in Chepstow castle, from May to October 1655, on what charge does not appear ; and a third time in the Tower in 1657, because of the indiscretion of his publisher, Richard Royston, who had decorated his Collection of Offices with a print representing Christ in the attitude of prayer.

The Old English name was ' Earninga Straete ' ( 1012 ), named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire and Royston, Hertfordshire.

From Royston, it was formerly the A14 to the A1 but now it is the A1198 to Godmanchester ( Durovigutum ).

Also in the 1846 session, powers were granted to various allied companies to make lines from Boston to Grimsby and Stamford to Spalding-which was never built-and also the Hitchin to Royston section only of a proposed Oxford and Cambridge Railway.

Further south, a branch from Hitchin to Royston and on to Shepreth was opened in March 1850 and worked by the GNR.

An agreement was reached for the GER to build the Shepreth to Cambridge section and then work the whole line from Hitchin to Cambridge for 14 years, with the GER taking over the expensive guarantee that the GNR had given to the Hitchin & Royston company.

In the episode " Pardon Me " Fletcher speaks to Blanco ( David Jason ) in the prison gardens: this was filmed in the grounds of an old brewery outside Baldock on the A505 to Royston.

The mission was unsuccessful, but Robinson's reputation was not damaged, and, as his biographer E Royston Pike puts it, " as a good Tory was given several small appointments in successive ministries.

Until 1540 the " vill " of Royston was divided between five parishes: Barkway, Reed and Therfield in Hertfordshire and Melbourn and Kneesworth in Cambridgeshire.

The hospital of St Nicholas was situated in the Cambridgeshire side of Royston.

Indeed he created a strict prohibition on anyone else from taking game within 16 miles of Royston, and an elaborate infrastructure was established to support the King in the pursuit of his sport.

Next year the queen opposed the marriage of her daughter, Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, but the king came to Royston with the Earl of Rochester to negotiate the dowry which was signed there.

Royston Town Council was formed in 1974 as the successor to Royston Urban District Council.

In December 2007 Royston Town Council was awarded the nationally recognised status of Quality Town Council.

In 1742 a strange cave carved out of the chalk was discovered in the centre of Royston.

The Battle of Royston was a fictive battle in William Le Queux ' The Invasion of 1910.

A brilliant performance of young left back Royston Drenthe at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship had investors flocking to the new investment schemes Feyenoord had set up.

Sneijder was the second of three Dutchmen to sign for Real Madrid 2007 – 08 season, joining Royston Drenthe and Arjen Robben.

Royston Tan has since made three more features, 4: 30 ( 2005 ), 881 ( 2007 ) and 12 Lotus ( 2008 ).

Royston Tan's 2007 movie 881 is based on a pair of getai singers.

This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10.

Until 1994 the A14 designation was used for a section of the Ermine Street between the A10 at Royston on the A10 and the A1 at Alconbury, most of which is now the A1198 road.

Prior to its use for the current route the A14 designation had been used for a section of road between the A10 at Royston and the A1 at Alconbury following part of the route of Ermine Street which is now most designated as the A1198 road.

The road which was known as the A14 until the late 1980s is now the A1198 between Royston, Hertfordshire and Godmanchester but, confusingly, retains its A14 designation north of Godmanchester until it meets the A1 road near Alconbury ; thus forming a ' spur ' off the main A14.

This outflanking movement was steadily progressing along the slopes of Mount Royston and turning the right of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, whose third regiment, the Wellington Mounted Rifles, was now also committed to the front line.

As the line had fallen back, the 2nd and 3rd Light Horse Regiments ( 1st Light Horse Brigade ) had come in between the 6th and 7th Light Horse Regiments ( 2nd Light Horse Brigade ); from right to left, the line was now held by the 6th, 3rd, 2nd and 7th Light Horse and the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments, while north north-west of Mount Royston, " D " Squadron of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars ( a regiment in the 5th Mounted Brigade ) held its ground.

A medieval leper colony, on Royston Road, was located during excavations in 2003, having been thought for many years to lie to the south-east of the town on the former Pesthouse Lane ( now Clothall Road ), the A507.

There were historically two axial roads through the township, the modern main road along the east-west axis and the combination of Darfield Road, Snydale Road, Royston Road, and the now defunct Downend Hill Lane leading to Royston along the north-south axis.

Royston investigates the tower and finds an old man inside who had a canister of a formerly radioactive material now drained of radioactivity.

When originally planned in 1917, Duxford aerodrome was to occupy a site divided by what is now the A505 road which runs north-east from Royston to Newmarket.

When they exit the door, they have entered Royston Vasey, which is now in chaos.

It appears that Royston Vasey can continue to exist independently of its now dead writers.

From here it runs north up Norton Folgate, Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington ( forming Stoke Newington High Street ), Tottenham and Enfield to Royston.

From Buntingford, the road runs through the villages of Chipping, Buckland, and Reed, before reaching the edge of Hertfordshire in the market town of Royston.

Dr. Royston from a nearby Atomic Energy establishment at Lochmouth is called in to investigate, along with Inspector McGill who runs security at the UK Atomic Energy Commission.

The tunnel, which runs from Darnick Street Tunnel to Royston Road Forge Street has long since fallen into disuse.

Having been held south of Romani, the German and Ottoman force attempted a further outflanking manoeuvre to the west, concentrating 2, 000 troops around Mount Royston another sand dune, south-west of Romani.

* The League of Gentlemen, a cult comedy revolving around the bizarre inhabitants of the fictional town Royston Vasey

Between 1997 and its abolition in 2005, the constituency was the following Glasgow City Council local government wards-Springburn, Cowlairs, Wallacewell, Milnbank, Dennistoun, Royston, Carntyne, Robroyston, Gartcraig, and part of the Keppochhill ward ( polling district SP79 around Springburn Public Halls, Keppochhill Road, and Crichton Street ).