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Stevenage

A Hertfordshire borough and town, Stevenage (STEE-vən-ij/ˈstiːvənɪdʒ) is to London's north by (44 km) 28 miles. Between to the south Welwyn Garden City, and to the north Letchworth Garden City, east of A1(M) 7 and 8 junctions is Stevenage. Designated the New Town of the UK under the New Towns Act was Stevenage in 1946.

Near the Roman road from Verulamium to Baldock lies Stevenage. Sacked within years, Dr Monica Felton, the radical town planner, became, in 1949, Chairman of the Development Corporation in Stevenage. Stevenage Day and Rock in the Park include a annual events that Stevenage holds.

Stevenage celebrated its anniversary as a New Town in 2016. Known as Forster Country, the St Nicholas' Church north land is the farmland remaining within the borough of Stevenage boundary. Meaning '(place at) the stiff oak', Stevenage derive from Old English stithen / sti en āc / sti en āc ac (various dialects of Old English cited here).

Stevenage has the central campus for North Hertfordshire College and a number of secondary schools. Throughout the 19th century, Stevenage grew slowly and, at the High Street's south end, a church (Holy Trinity) was constructed.

In King George V's memory, Stevenage has a King George's Field, which boasts a bowls green and cricket, which is used by Stevenage Town Bowls Club. When the Plan of Abercrombie called for, around London, a ring of towns, Stevenage's slow growth continued until after the Second War of the World.

On the Monks Wood estate, the pub, Twin Foxes was Stevenage's public house that was 'new' and after (Albert and Ebenezer Fox) notorious poachers that were identical-twins was named. A park of science aimed at attracting start-up and small enterprises for life-sciences, Stevenage BioScience Catalyst opened on a site next to GSK in 2011.