ROYDON, a parish partly in the hundred of WALTHAM,
but chiefly in that of HARLOW, county of ESSEX,
4 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.