Location Priory Lane (near junction with Market Hill), Royston
County Hertfordshire
Year Opened 1883
Year Closed 1991
Century of Operation 1800-1899, 1900-1999
Remarks Royston, Hertfordshire, had police stations at White Hall, London Road 1841-1883, at Priory Lane 1883-1991 and at Melbourn Road 1991 to date. The Priory Lane station was converted into a business centre in 1994 and a private house in 2010. Before the boundary changes of 1896, the county boundary between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire ran east-west through the centre of town along the middle of Melbourn Street. (Martin Dawes, Geograph). Both Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Constabularies maintained police stations in the town. A. C. Wiseman's book, 'The History of Police Stations in Hertfordshire', gives a comprehensive history and photographs of this, and many other, police premises.
Further information can be found at
https://www.prisonhistory.org/lockup/royston-police-station-and-magistrates-court/