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Roydon has been named as the perfect commuter city out of 100 ‘most habitable commuter cities’ positioned lower than 90 minutes away from London by practice. This rating was achieved by the Telegraph, considering the quantity of inexperienced areas, good faculties, leisure, home costs, journey time and the pricing of a National Rail season ticket. Only 37 minutes away from central London, Roydon scored 100% in inexperienced areas together with a median home value of round £509,864.

Crowning Roydon as primary on the record, consultants cited its “scenic surroundings” and “historic charm”. The city is in the direction of the center of the size price-wise when it comes to cities commutable to London, and the city prides itself on its close-knit group spirit, proximity to nature reserves and a jaw-dropping church which has stood because the 1200s.

With direct trains reaching Liverpool Street inside simply over half an hour, Roydon provides loads of area and greenery with glorious hyperlinks to the Big Smoke and it is also simply an hour’s practice trip from the centre of Cambridge.

Roydon is surrounded by inexperienced areas, from the River Stort and the Roydon Woods Nature Reserve.

It additionally has a major college which was created in 1876 with a GOOD Ofsted report for 2024 with a giant taking part in subject, three playgrounds, a swimming pool, an amphitheatre and an journey playground.

Its church, St Peter’s Church dates again to the Middle Ages and has an attention-grabbing historical past together with its vicar from 1752 for 56 years  who was the Rev. William Day who was each a boxer and a vicar and was nicknamed “the Pugilist Parson of Roydon”.

Roydon had a water mill in-built 1086 which was later changed by a contemporary mill within the nineteenth century that operated till the Nineteen Thirties however is now dwelling to the Roydon Marina Village space.

Nestled inside the Lee Valley Regional Park, the Roydon Marina Village is an attractive vacation park and marina with moorings, luxurious lodges, residential park properties, a lodge, and a restaurant.

From the Roydon Marina Village, you possibly can even see London’s tall buildings whereas being in the course of a regional park that has a 32-acre lake with a 483-berth marina.