ROYDON, a parish partly in the hundred of WALTHAM, but chiefly in that of HARLOW, county of ESSEX, 4½ miles (W by S) from Harlow, containing 796 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £12, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Hon W T L P Wellesley. The church is dedicated to St Peter. John Manning, in 1768, founded a free school, and endowed it with a house and lands for teaching the children of the parish. Here is still standing the curious ancient gateway of the mansion of Nether Hall, demolished about 1773.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Roydon baptisms DP 60-1-1 1567-1706
Roydon marriages DP 60-1-1 1567-1706
Roydon burials DP 60-1-1 1567-1706
Further registers for Roydon are included in the FreeReg database.
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