The Icknield Way used to form part of the boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, and at one time Royston was cut in two by this boundary.

Antony, Royston, and Christian Langdon then pooled their resources to form Arckid.

" In real life, Royston Vasey is the given name of comedian Roy ' Chubby ' Brown, who makes several appearances as the town's foulmouthed mayor.

Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke PC, DL ( 23 April 1836 – 18 May 1897 ), styled Viscount Royston until 1873, and nicknamed Champagne Charlie for his love of the high life, was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, dandy and bankrupt.

The recent construction of new private housing injected some much needed life into what was a decaying area, combined with new developments on the old railway yards on Royston road, have done much to breathe new life into the area.

At one point, they were hunting near Royston when James I criticized his son for lacking enthusiasm for the chase, and Henry initially moved to strike his father with a cane but rode off.

In the film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, the town is on the verge of destruction when the League of Gentlemen-Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith-agree to stop writing for Royston Vasey.

The destruction of Royston Vasey can only be prevented when all four of the writers are killed, but it transpires that the entire ordeal was conceived by Dyson while unconscious in a hospital.

On the death of Pelham in 1754 Hardwicke obtained for Newcastle the post of prime minister, and for reward was created earl of Hardwicke and Viscount Royston ; and when in November 1756 the weakness of the ministry and the threatening aspect of foreign affairs compelled Newcastle to resign, Hardwicke retired with him.

He was styled Viscount Royston from 1754 till 1764, when he succeeded to the earldom.

At the most critical period of the day's fighting, when the German and Ottoman force of 2, 000 dominated the Romani area from Mount Royston, the five mounted brigades ( still less the 5th Light Horse Regiment ) began their counterattack at 14: 00 from the west towards Mount Royston.

Royston was not one of the four contenders nominated for at the selection conference in March 2006, when Cyprian Brady and Councillor Mary Fitzpatrick were selected as Ahern's two running-mates.

Upon his first visit to Royston Vasey, he collected some wives, performed his show, then moved on when the audience's noses started bleeding simultaneously.

Royston Maldoom ’ s career as a choreographer began in1972 when he received a major Gulbenkian Foundation award for his work in a royal Ballet Workshop.

After you quit Ware ... the land grows by degrees poorer ; the chalk lies nearer and nearer to the surface, till you come to the open common-fields within a few miles of Royston is at the foot of this high poor land ; or, rather in a dell, the open side of which looks towards the North.

Royston points out that the monster broke through miles of Earth to get to the surface, so a few feet of concrete would be unable to stop it.

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.

Royston Arts Festival was revived in 2007 and now runs annually around the last week of September or the first week of October.

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

As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which commenced in 2011, the Boundary Commission for England has proposed abolishing North East Hertfordshire, in favour largely for a new seat called " Letchworth ", incorporating Letchworth, Royston, Buntingford and Ashwell.

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.

By the 14th century this had become Roisia's Town, Roiston or Royston.

Royston also had two hospitals, or free chapels, as well as the monastery.

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.

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.

By 16: 00, the attack had proceeded to a point where Chaytor arranged with the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade for a squadron of Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and two troops of the Worcestershire Yeomanry to gallop against the southern spur of Mount Royston.

He had already been created Baron Hardwicke, of Hardwicke in the County of Gloucester, in 1733, and was made Viscount Royston at the same time as he was given the earldom.

Prior to the establishment of the Poor Law Union, almost every aspect of local governance had been shared between three authorities ; the Justices of the Peace for the West Riding in their Quarter or Special sessions ; the Parish of Royston ( until 1843 ) and its Vestry, and the Manor of Cudworth with its Court Baron and Court Leet.

Royston Langdon married actress Liv Tyler in 2004 and they had one child.

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

Madge Sinclair married Royston, a police officer, and had two sons, Garry and Wayne.

Other notable players Mijatović had a hand in signing to Real were Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester United, defensive midfielder Mahamadou Diarra from Lyon, 19-year-old striker Gonzalo Higuaín from River Plate, 18-year-old left back Marcelo Vieira from Fluminense, the emerging 23-year-old midfield creator Wesley Sneijder from Ajax, defensive midfielder Royston Drenthe from Feyenoord, attacking midfielder Rafael van der Vaart from Hamburger SV, and striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Ajax.

Margaret's sister Varilla and husband Robert Royston had moved to the area.

Originally the Union Coal Co. had intended to ship coal out from Royston to the north of what is currently Union Bay, but Robert Dunsmuir bought out the company.