Permission must be obtained before the park, grounds or house can be inspected.  The park contains about 500 acres and is famous for its splendid timber, some of its oaks being of almost perfect development and proportions.

[Illustration:  RICKMANSWORTH]

Rickmansworth Park, N. from the town, has a modern house well situated.  The park stretches nearly to Loudwater Mill on the river Chess, and is, like Moor Park, beautifully wooded.

RIDGE (21/2 miles S.W. from Potter’s Bar Station, G.N.R.) is on the Middlesex border, close to South Mimms.  The village doubtless owes its name to its situation on the hill.  The small church is mainly Perp., but the chancel is E. Dec.; it contains several memorials to the Blount family, including one to Charles Blount (1654-93).  He was an infidel of more bitterness than ability, as may be seen from his translation of Philostratus’s Apollonius Tyanaeus; readers may remember that his Just Vindication of Learning, etc., was stigmatised by Macaulay as “garbled extracts” from Milton’s Areopagitica.  On being refused a licence to marry his deceased wife’s sister, he committed suicide—­Pope says he “despatch’d himself”.  The Blount family resided in the neighbourhood for many generations; Sir Henry Pope Blount, father of the above-mentioned Charles, “built here a fair structure of Brick, made fair Walks and Gardens to it, and died seiz’d thereof”.  He was the author of A Voyage into the Levant.

Ringshall is a hamlet on the Bucks border, in the parish of Little Gaddesden.

Roe Green (4 miles S.E. from Ashwell Station, G.N.R.) is in a pleasant and very quiet neighbourhood.  The nearest parish church is Sandon, about 1 mile N.E.  Roe Wood is a little N. from the hamlet.

Roestock, a hamlet in the parish of North Mimms, is 1 mile N. from the Park.  Smallford Station, G.N.R., is 1 mile N.W.

Round Bush consists of a few cottages, 11/2 mile S.W. from Radlett Station, M.R.

Row Green (11/4 mile S.W. from Hatfield) lies close to the road from St. Albans to Hatfield.  Row Hyde is a little farther S.W.

Rowley Green, on the road from Barnet Gate to Shenley, is nearly 2 miles E. from Elstree Station, M.R.

[Illustration:  THE HIGH STREET, ROYSTON]

ROYSTON, an ancient market town on the Icknield Way at its junction with Ermine Street, was until recently partly in Cambs.  It is supposed to owe its name to a Dame Roesia who placed a cross here on the highway, near which spot a monastery of Black Canons was founded by Eustace de Mere and others in the reign of Henry II.  Early in the reign of Henry IV. the town was almost destroyed by fire.  Royston enjoyed several market privileges in the good old days, and it is recorded that early in the fifteenth century wheat was so plentiful that it was sold in Royston market for 12d. a quarter.