Roydon
Roydon is a small village, parish and electoral ward in the county of Norfolk, England, about a mile west of Diss. It covers an area of 5.54 km2 and had a population of 2,358 in 981 households at the 2001 census, the population of both parish and ward increasing to 2,457 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 2,420 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in South Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Roydon, Norfolk” and “Roydon, South Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Remigius, Roydon and Roydon Fen.
Roydon Fen
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roydon Fen is a 17.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve south of Roydon, on the western outskirts of Diss in Norfolk. It is owned by South Norfolk District Council and managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
Wortham Ling
Nature reserve
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wortham Ling is a 53.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Wortham in Suffolk. This site has acid grassland and dry heath on a sandy soil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diss and Palgrave.
Diss
Photo: Ikcur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Diss is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in South Norfolk, England; it is near the boundary with Suffolk. It had a population of 7,572 in 2011.
Palgrave
Village
Palgrave is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located on the south bank of the River Waveney, opposite Diss in Norfolk and adjacent to the Great Eastern Main Line.
Wortham
Village
Photo: Smb1001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wortham is a village and parish in Suffolk, England, close to the border with Norfolk. Its church, St Mary the Virgin, lies about a mile north of the present-day village. Wortham is situated 2½ miles southwest of Roydon.
Roydon
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Roydon, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.38162° or 52° 22′ 54″ northLongitude
1.08453° or 1° 5′ 4″ eastPopulation
2,420Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9F4393JM+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 5107597336OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639019Wikidata ID
Q746725
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Roydon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Roydon”
- Dutch: “Roydon”
- French: “Roydon”
- Irish: “Roydon”
- Ladin: “Roydon (South Norfolk)”
- Ladin: “Roydon”
- Persian: “رویدون، ساوت نورفولک”
- Polish: “Roydon”
- Swedish: “Roydon, South Norfolk”
- Turkish: “Roydon, South Norfolk”
- Welsh: “Roydon, De Norfolk”
- Welsh: “Roydon”
- “Roydon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Roydon”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.