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    stevenage.gov.uk. Stevenage ( / ˈstiːvənɪdʒ / STEE-vən-ij) is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about 27 miles (43 km) north of London. [3] Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1 (M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south.

  2. Apr 25, 2024 · Stevenage. Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Eng. Stevenage, new town and borough (district) in the administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. It lies along the Great North Road (a major English transportation artery) in the northern periphery of the London metropolitan region. Stevenage was the first new town to be designated by ...

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  3. Stevenage. Stevenage is a town of approximately 88,000 (2019) in the county of Hertfordshire, in the south east of England, around 32 miles (51 km) north of central London. The town is well known for being the first ever 'new town'; new towns were a series of towns built near London after World War II.

    • Knebworth House. On Stevenage’s doorstep is a country house that has been the residence for the Lytton family since 1490. The theatrical Victorian Tudor Revival facade encloses a much older house, built from red brick and dating back to the 16th century.
    • Knebworth Park. There are 250 acres of rambling parkland in Knebworth’s grounds. You can take stately strolls along the lime and chestnut avenues, passing herds of sika and red deer that have grazed here since well before the 15th century.
    • Fairlands Valley Park. Laid out in the 1970s, Fairlands Valley Park is often voted among England’s favourite free attractions, and is a real asset to Stevenage on hot summer days.
    • New Town Centre. Stevenage’s town centre was England’s first traffic-free shopping zone, borrowed partly from Rotterdam’s Lijnbaan. Now, a scheme as radical as this will always divide opinion, but more than 70 years later it’s an important artefact of mid-20th-century urban planning, around a plaza with an iconic Modernist clock tower.
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  6. www.wikiwand.com › en › StevenageStevenage - Wikiwand

    Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about 27 miles (43 km) north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act.

  7. www.visitherts.co.uk › destinations › stevenageStevenage - Visit Herts

    STEVENAGE MUSEUM. On a wooded hill in North Hertfordshire, a small community gathered in Saxon times and began to settle the land on which Stevenage now stands. Stevenage Museum has a collection of over 18,000 photographs and 10,000 objects detailing its history. The museum is underneath St. Andrew and St. George’s church on St George’s Way ...

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