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Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Royston. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Make your life easier with skip hire in Royston

Avoid going to the local household recycling centre only to discover it is closed by hiring a skip from Royston Skip Hire

Our Skip Hire company sends all waste collected from Royston back to our primary recycling plant in Stevenage.

One thing many of you may have noticed recently is the opening times of the local household recycling centres have changed. The chances are that this is all down to austerity cuts in local authority funding. The tip was always open seven days a week in the past, but these days a lot of them seem to be closing for at least a couple of days a week. This can be a genuine pain if you have piles of waste materials to dispose of. Some recycling centres are even closed at weekends now, which is the time when most people get the chance to use them. Maybe the local authority feels that by closing them at the weekend, they will be reducing the amount of waste going into land fill. Unfortunately, a knock on effect is the number of unscrupulous individuals who are now posing as legitimate waste carriers who will collect your waste for you, only to fly tip it in a nearby country lane.

During the winter months it gets even worse. Owing to the lack of daylight, the dump is usually only open until about 4pm, this doesn't really give you a huge amount of time to get all your waste down there on a weekend. Not only that, but who wants to spend their valuable days off waiting in line at the local tip? What you need is a hired skip from Royston Skip Hire to take care of all your waste materials.

After all, who really needs to spend their time sorting through rubbish, loading it into their car, driving miles to the dump, only to wait for ages in a line of grumpy and impatient motorists with cars full of smelly waste? Royston Skip Hire has been in the waste management business for years and we know the best way to deal with your rubbish and can recycle what needs recycling, you won't have to worry about a thing!

For safe, convenient rubbish removal of bulky and heavy loads, it is well worth contacting us at Royston Skip Hire for some advice and a quote.

Some Royston history

The town of Royston grew at the crossing of two ancient thoroughfares, Ermine Street and the Icknield Way; the former was created after the Roman conquest, while the Icknield Way has long been accepted as a prehistoric route way. The roads are sometimes called military roads as they were prepared or improved by Roman soldiers to facilitate access to the hinterland of Roman Britain. The path of Icknield Way is occupied by the present day A505, which bypasses Royston to the north. The A10 follows the alignment of Ermine Street south of Royston but diverts before it reaches the crossroads. The A1198, known as the Old North Road follows the alignment of Ermine Street northwards. Barrows on Goffers Knoll and Therfield Heath are evidence of prehistoric settlement.

A cross, variously known as Royse's, Rohesia's, or Roisia's Cross, was erected by the crossroads at an unknown date. It gave Royston its earliest name of Crux Roesia or Roisia's Cross. By the 14th century this had become Roisia's Town, Roiston or Royston. A large boulder of red millstone grit, bearing a square socket, supposed to be the base of the cross, has been placed by the cross roads at the northern end of Royston High Street.

Until 1540 Royston was divided between five parishes: Barkway, Reed and Therfield in Hertfordshire and Melbourn and Kneesworth in Cambridgeshire. In that year it became a separate ecclesiastical parish, partly in each county.

Ralph de Rochester founded the Augustinian priory which originated as a chapel for three canons and was later expanded to seven or more regular canons. Royston had two hospitals or free chapels, as well as the monastery.

The hospital of St John and St Thomas was founded for lepers in 1224 by Richard Argentine, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire on the south side of Baldock Street.

Royston Palace

On 29 April 1603 James VI and I, travelling to Westminster to be crowned as King of England, stayed overnight at the Chester residence. His grandmother Mary of Guise had stayed there in 1551. Attracted by the suitability of the area for hunting, James hired the house for a year. In 1604 he decided to create a royal hunting lodge in Royston by demolishing the "Cock" and "Greyhound" inns. The king's lodgings were completed in 1607 and were described in 1652 as "all of brick well-tiled double-built, in length 78 ft., breadth 43 ft., height from eaves to ground 24 ft., thickness of walls 24 inches." The buildings were never big enough to cater for a full royal court, but provided a suitable spot for hunting, near enough to London for convenience and far enough away to deter intrusion. King James ordered a strict prohibition on anyone taking game from within sixteen miles of Royston, and an elaborate infrastructure was established to support him in the pursuit of his sport. He returned almost every year to hunt and shoot at Royston.

Queen Anne and Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, visited Royston once, in 1611-1612. The next year, the queen opposed the marriage of her daughter Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, but the king came to Royston with the Earl of Rochester to negotiate the dowry, and a marriage contract was signed there. Following the marriage, celebrated on St Valentine's Day 1613, the king, Prince Charles, and Frederick came to stay at Royston.

James's successor, King Charles I, visited Royston less often than his father. In June 1647, during the English Civil Wars, Charles was brought through the town as a prisoner of the Parliamentary army. After Charles's execution, the royal buildings fell into disrepair. The Crown sold its last interests in Royston in 1866.

So if you live in or around the Royston area of Hertfordshire and want to take the worry and hassle out of disposing of your domestic or commercial waste and don't want to be hassled about when the local dump is open, why not give us a call at Royston Skip Hire. Don't waste hour after hour waiting in line at the local tip to offload your waste materials. Royston Skip Hire deal with all manner of domestic and commercial waste and dispose of it in an environmentally responsible way. Simply phone us and we can advise you as to the best size of skip for your needs.

Avoid going to the dump only to discover it is closed by hiring a skip from Royston Skip Hire

Stevenage Skip Hire sends all waste from Royston back to our primary recycling plant in Stevenage.

One thing many of you may have noticed recently is the opening times of the local household recycling centres has changed. The chances are that this is all down to austerity cuts in local authority funding. The tip was always open seven days a week in the past, but these days a lot of them seem to be closing for at least a couple of days a week. This can be a genuine pain if you have piles of waste materials to dispose of.

After all, who really needs to spend their time sorting through rubbish, loading it into their car, driving miles to the dump, only to wait for ages in a line of grumpy and impatient motorists with cars full of smelly waste? Royston Skip Hire have been in the waste management business for years and we know the best way to deal with your rubbish and can recycle what needs recycling, you won't have to worry about a thing!

For safe, convenient rubbish removal of bulky and heavy loads, it is well worth contacting us at Royston Skip Hire for some advice and a quote.

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Royston:

Skip Hire
Waste Recycling
Waste Management
Envirowaste Recycling Centre
Waste Disposal
Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
Licensed Waste Carriers
Environment Agency Approved
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Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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Stevenage Skip Hire Ltd
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Graveley
Herts SG4 7EQ

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