Ryston

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{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.58386|0.403061|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = TF629011

| official_name = Ryston

| population = 178

| area_total_km2 = 9.36

| static_image = St Michael, Ryston, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 1501435.jpg

| static_image_caption = St Michael's Church

| shire_district = King's Lynn and West Norfolk

| shire_county = Norfolk

| region = East of England

| civil_parish = Ryston

| constituency_westminster =

| postcode_district = PE38

| postcode_area = PE

| post_town = DOWNHAM MARKET

| dial_code =

| london_distance =

}}

Ryston is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It once had its own railway station.

The village's name means 'Brushwood farm/settlement'.

It covers an area of {{convert|9.36|km2|abbr=on}} and had a population of 93 in 34 households at the 2001 census,[http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211032229/http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls |date=2017-02-11 }}. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. the population increasing to 178 at the 2011 census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128126&c=Ryston&d=16&e=62&g=6449233&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440843505955&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date=29 August 2015}}

For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

File:Ryston Hall, Downham Market (geograph 3397262).jpg

St Michael's parish church dates from the 12th century and was restored in 1901. It is a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE| num = 1077857| desc= CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL |access-date = 23 March 2014}}

Ryston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house, built 1669-72 by the architect Sir Roger Pratt as his own home in 1669. It was later remodelled c.1780 by Sir John Soane and again by Anthony Salvin in 1867.{{NHLE|num = 1205569|desc= RYSTON HALL |access-date = 23 March 2014}} The formal gardens and woodland walks are open to the public several times a year.

Ryston railway station opened in 1882; it was closed to passengers in 1930.