Stevenage

Stevenage Borough of Stevenage
Town & Borough
Stevenage Town Centre
Coat of Arms of the Borough Council
Motto: "The heart of a town lies in its people"
Stevenage shown within Hertfordshire
Coordinates: 51°54′N 0°12′W / 51.9°N 0.2°W / 51.9; -0.2
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East of England
Ceremonial county	Hertfordshire
Admin HQ	Stevenage
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district
• Governing body	Stevenage Borough Council
• Mayor	Councillor Howard Burrell
• MP	Stephen McPartland
• Control	Labour
Area
• Total	10.02 sq mi (25.96 km2)
Population (mid-2014 est.)
• Total	85,997 (Ranked 276th)
• Density	7,980/sq mi (3,081/km2)
• Ethnicity (United Kingdom estimate 2005)[1]	92.0% White 3.2% S.Asian 1.8% Black 1.8% Mixed Race 1.2% Chinese or other
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
Postcode areas	SG
Area code(s)	01438
ONS code	26UH (ONS) E07000101 (GSS)
OS grid reference	TL2424
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
Website	www.stevenage.gov.uk

Stevenage /ˈstiːvənᵻdʒ/ is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated to the east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), and is between Letchworth Garden City to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south.

Stevenage is roughly 30 miles (50 km) north of central London. Its population has increased significantly over the last century: the population was 1,430 in 1801, 4,049 in 1901, 79,724 in 2001 and 84,651 in 2007. The largest increase occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, after Stevenage was designated a new town under the New Towns Act of 1946.

Two films were set in and around Stevenage, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and Boston Kickout. Spy Game was partly filmed in Stevenage but set in Washington, D.C.. The 1959 film Serious Charge was also filmed in Stevenage.^[2]

Etymology

Stevenage may derive from Old English stiþen āc / stiðen āc / stithen ac (various Old English dialects cited here) meaning '(place at) the stiff oak'.^[3]

The name was recorded as Stithenæce, c.1060 and Stigenace in 1086 in the Domesday Book.

History

Stevenage lies near the line of the Roman road from Verulamium to Baldock. Some Romano-British remains were discovered during the building of the New Town, and a hoard of 2,000 silver Roman coins was discovered in 1986 during new house building in the Chells Manor area. The most substantial evidence of activity from Roman times is Six Hills, six tumuli by the side of the old Great North Road – presumably the burial places of a local family.

A little to the east of the Roman sites the first Saxon camp was made in a clearing in the woods where the church, manor house and the first village were later built. Settlements also sprang up in Chells, Broadwater and Shephall (though before the New Town, Shephall was a separate parish and Broadwater was split between the parishes of Shephall and Knebworth).

In the Domesday Book, the Lord of the Manor was the Abbot of Westminster Abbey. The settlement had moved down to the Great North Road and in 1281 it was granted a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market and annual fair (still held in the High Street).

The earliest part of St Nicholas Church dates from the 12th century, but it was probably a site of worship much earlier. The known list of priests or rectors is relatively complete from 1213.

The remains of a medieval moated homestead in Whomerley Wood is an 80-yard square trench almost 5 feet wide in parts. It was probably the home of Ralph de Homle, and both Roman and later pottery has been found there.

Around 1500 the Church was much improved, with decorative woodwork within, and with the addition of a clerestory.

In 1558, Thomas Alleyne, a rector of the town, founded a free grammar school for boys, Alleyne's Grammar School, which had an unbroken existence (unlike the grammar school in neighbouring Hitchin) till 1989. Francis Cammaerts was headmaster of the school from 1952 to 1961. The school (now a mixed comprehensive school(Academy as of 2013)) still exists on its original site at the north end of the High Street. It was intended to move the school to Great Ashby but the Coalition government (2010–15) proposed the scrapping of the move owing to budget cuts.

Stevenage's prosperity came in part from the North Road, which was turnpiked in the early 18th century. Many inns in the High Street served the stage coaches, 21 of which passed through Stevenage each day in 1800.

In 1857 the Great Northern Railway was constructed, and the era of the stage coach had ended. Stevenage grew only slowly throughout the 19th century and a second church (Holy Trinity) was constructed at the south end of the High Street. In 1861 Dickens commented "The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree. The quietest little dwellings with the largest of window-shutters to shut up nothing as if it were the Mint or the Bank of England."

In 1928, Philip Vincent bought the HRD Motorcycle Co Ltd out of receivership, immediately moving it to Stevenage and renaming it the Vincent HRD Motorcycle Co Ltd. He produced the legendary motorcycles, including the Black Shadow and Black Lightning, in the town until 1955.

Modern Stevenage

This slow growth continued until, after the Second World War, the Abercrombie Plan called for the establishment of a ring of new towns around London. It was designated the first New Town on 1 August 1946. The plan was not popular with local people who protested at a meeting held in the town hall before Lewis Silkin, minister in the Labour Government of Clement Attlee. As Lewis Silkin arrived at the railway station for this meeting, some local people had changed the signs 'Stevenage' to 'Silkingrad'. Silkin was obstinate at the meeting, telling a crowd of 3,000 people outside the town hall (around half the town's residents): 'It's no good your jeering, it's going to be done.' Despite the hostile reaction to Silkin, and a referendum that showed 52% (turnout 2,500) 'entirely against' the expansion, the plan went ahead.^[4] Ironically, although the New Towns Commission declared the Old Town would not be touched, the first significant building to be demolished in it was indeed the Old Town Hall, in which the opposition had been expressed.

In 1949 the radical townplanner Dr. Monica Felton became Chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation. She was sacked within two years. A number of reasons explain her dismissal by the government. There was a lack of hands-on town planning leadership and her political stance during the Korean War, for which she was later awarded the Stalin Peace Prize ruined her reputation.^[5]

In keeping with the sociological outlook of the day, the town was planned with six self-contained neighbourhoods. The first two of these to be occupied were the Stoney Hall and Monks Wood "Estates" in 1951. Next to be built and occupied by the London 'overspill' was Bedwell in 1952 – The Twin Foxes pub was Stevenage's first "new" public house and is still situated in the Monks Wood estate. The public house was named after local notorious identical twin poachers (Albert Ebenezer and Ebenezer Albert Fox). Next came Broadwater and Shephall (1953), then Chells in the 1960s and later Pin Green and Symonds Green. Another area to the north of the town is modern development of Great Ashby – this is still under construction as of 2014. The Government gave almost £2 million for a purpose-built homeless shelter, which will serve a large part of Hertfordshire.^[6]

At least two other public houses are worth mentioning, for they have a direct relationship to local history: the name of the pub "Edward the Confessor" (closed 2006) could have a connection to the time in which the St Mary Church in nearby Walkern was built, for King Edward ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Walkern's village church dates from this time. The second pub with a strong bond to local history seems to be the "Our Mutual Friend" in Broadwater, for the name of the pub is the title of a novel by Charles Dickens. Dickens was at some occasion guest to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in nearby Knebworth House, and for that reason he knew Stevenage very well.

The pedestrianised town centre was the first purpose built traffic-free shopping zone in Britain, and was officially opened in 1959 by the Queen.^[7] By the clock tower and ornamental pool is Joyride, a mother and child sculpture by Franta Belsky. Although revolutionary for its time, the town centre is showing signs of age and in 2005 plans were revealed for a major regeneration due to take place over the next decade. Details are still being debated by the council, landowners and other interested parties.

Multi-million pound plans to redevelop Stevenage town centre were scrapped due to the recession and the lack of interested private sector partners.^[8] Stevenage Borough Council announced 24 May 2012 that a £250m scheme for the shopping area has been pulled by Stevenage Regeneration Limited (SRL) because of the continuing adverse economic conditions.^[8] The plans which included realigning streets, moving the bus station and building a new department store, cinema, hotel, restaurants and flats were given council planning approval in January 2012.^[8]

The Town Centre Regeneration Strategy (2002)called for better quality shops (including a major department store); improved public transport with a combined bus and rail interchange; high-density town centre living;substantially improved civic facilities; enhanced office space; an improved public realm.^[9] YMCA Space Stevenage (a youth and community centre) was evicted and replaced by Paddy Power (a betting shop).^[10] Other well known stores, such as Maplin (electronics), have also disappeared from Stevenage's town centre.^[11]

The town has a large central library^[12] located in Southgate at the southern end of the pedestrian precinct, with facilities including printing, fax and photocopying, children's events, study space, a carers' information point and a large public computer suite, as well as a small branch library^[13] at the northern end the High Street in the Old Town. There is also a public library in nearby Knebworth,^[14] located in St Martin's Road.

Next to the Town Gardens, the Church of St Andrew and St George is an example of modern church design, and has housed Stevenage Museum in its crypt since 1976. The church is a 'cathedral-like' Grade 2 listed building. It is also the largest parish church to have been built in England since World War Two.

Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother laid the Foundation Stone in July 1956 and was also present at the consecration by the Bishop of St Albans, the Right Reverend Michael Gresford-Jones, on Advent Sunday 27 November 1960. The frame is constructed from a 'continuous pour' of concrete into moulds creating interlacing arches and leaving no apparent joints. There are twelve Purbeck marble columns about the High Altar and the external walls are clad in panels faced with Normandy pebble. The campanile houses the loudspeakers for an electro-acoustic carillon. A popular sculpture, 'The Urban Elepant' by Andrew Burton was commissioned in 1992.

North of Stevenage Old Town, near St Nicholas Church, lies Rooks' Nest ("under the big wych-elm"), home of the novelist Edward Morgan Forster from 1884 to 1894. Forster used Rooksnest and the surrounding area as the setting for his novel Howards End. In the preface of one paperback edition of Howards End, there is a lot to be found about landmarks of Stevenage and their relationship to the story of the novel, such as the Stevenage High Street and the Six Hills. The land north of St Nicholas Church, known as Forster Country, is the last remaining farmland within the boundary of Stevenage borough.^[15] Forster was unhappy with the development of new Stevenage, which would, in his words, 'fall out of the blue sky like a meteorite upon the ancient and delicate scenery of Hertfordshire'.^[4]

Also close to Stevenage is Knebworth House, a gothic stately home and venue of globally well-known rock concerts since 1974. The house was once home to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Victorian English novelist and spiritualist, who, as reported by one of his visitors, was so deep in the belief of spiritual realities that he sometimes thought himself to be invisible while others were around.

In 1999 a millennium countdown clock was mounted on the town centre clock tower, displaying the time remaining until the year 2000. The artwork on the clock was designed by Nicola Reed, a pupil of Fearnhill School, Letchworth.

Adjacent to, yet separate from the residential parts of the town, is the Industrial Area. For many years, British Aerospace (now MBDA) was the largest employer in the town, but now GlaxoSmithKline has a large pharmaceutical research laboratory complex (which is known as 'The Palace' to many of its inhabitants).^[16] A smaller but interesting enterprise is Astrium which has for some decades (as part of British Aerospace and its predecessors) manufactured spacecraft, both as prime contractor and equipment supplier.

There are many small to medium size firms as well. Stevenage BioScience Catalyst, a new science park aimed at attracting small and start-up life sciences enterprises, opened in 2011 on a site next to GSK.^[17]

The town is still growing. It is set to expand west of the A1(M) motorway and may be further identified for development. The main area of more recent development is Great Ashby to the northeast of the town (but actually situated in North Herts District). A considerable amount of in borough development has been undertaken at Chrysalis Park - situated on the old Dixon's Warehouse site adjacent to the Pin Green Industrial Estate.

Stevenage holds a number of annual events, including Stevenage Day^[18] and Rock in the Park. In past years, Stevenage Carnival has also been held, with a number of attempts to revive it.^[19]

Geography

Climate

Stevenage experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.

Climate data for Stevenage
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	7 (45)	8 (46)	11 (52)	13 (55)	17 (63)	19 (66)	22 (72)	23 (73)	19 (66)	14 (57)	10 (50)	7 (45)	14 (57)
Average low °C (°F)	2 (36)	2 (36)	4 (39)	4 (39)	7 (45)	10 (50)	12 (54)	12 (54)	10 (50)	8 (46)	5 (41)	3 (37)	7 (45)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	45.1 (1.776)	33.9 (1.335)	28.7 (1.13)	43.9 (1.728)	34.9 (1.374)	46.6 (1.835)	42.1 (1.657)	46.9 (1.846)	54.9 (2.161)	56.8 (2.236)	48.0 (1.89)	49.8 (1.961)	531.6 (20.929)
Source: [20]

Sport and leisure

Stevenage has a King George's Field named in memory of King George V, which boasts cricket and a bowls green, which is used by Stevenage Town Bowls Club. The field was the original pitch that Stevenage F.C. used to play on. The cricket ground is called Ditchmore Lane. The Stevenage Leisure Centre contains the Gordon Craig Theatre and many facilities for sports. The nearby Stevenage Leisure Park has a multiplex cinema, clubs and restaurants. The main shopping area is around Queensway and the Westgate. At the south of the town there is a retail park called Roaring Meg, which takes its name from a stream (a tributary of the river Beane) that runs under it. The river can be seen along the western edge of the area. There is also shopping in the Old Town. The Roaring Meg had an ice rink and bowling alley, but these were demolished in 2000 to allow the construction of more stores.^[21]

Stevenage F.C., formerly known as Stevenage Borough,^[22] is the town's major football team, playing their home matches at Broadhall Way. Founded in 1976, the club were promoted to the Football Conference, the highest tier of non-league football, in 1994. After sixteen seasons in this division, Stevenage won the Conference Premier title during the 2009–10 season, having previously been denied promotion to the Football League due to insufficient ground facilities in 1996.^[23] During Stevenage's first season as a Football League club, they secured back-to-back promotions to League One, the third tier of English football, after beating Torquay United 1–0 in the 2010–11 play-off final at Old Trafford.^[24] The club also won the FA Trophy in 2007 beating Kidderminster Harriers 3–2 at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 53,262.^[25] It was the first competitive club game and cup final to be held at the new stadium.^[26] Stevenage reached the final again in 2009, beating York City 2–0.^[27] The club has also enjoyed several runs in the FA Cup, raising the town's profile in the process. During the 1997–98 campaign, Stevenage held Premier League side Newcastle United to a draw at Broadhall Way, before losing the replay 2–1 at Newcastle.^[28] The club would go one better in 2010, securing a 3–1 home victory over Newcastle in the third round of the competition — the first time the club had beaten first tier opposition.^[29][30][31] The following season, Stevenage held Tottenham Hotspur to a 0–0 draw at home in the fifth round, before losing the subsequent replay 3–1 at White Hart Lane.^[32][33]

The town also has a number of other successful sports clubs, including a women's football team (Stevenage Borough Ladies FC) and Stevenage Town Rugby Club. Many top class sporting heroes have come from Stevenage, the most notable being Kevin Phillips, Ashley Young, Lewis Hamilton, Ian Poulter. Fairlands Valley is a large area of parkland with boating lakes. The town is a very green town, with avenues of trees (typically Norway Maple) throughout but also large woods such as Monks & Whomerley Wood, which is ancient semi-natural woodland. Indeed, the Woodland Trust ranks it as one of the best places in the UK for ease of access to large woodland, with 99.9% of the population having access to woodland over 2 hectares (5 acres) within 4 km (2.5 mi), only slightly behind those living in the Forest of Dean or New Forest.^[34] There are also many playing fields (e.g. St. Nicholas playing fields near Ripon Road). The town's schools all have a substantial amount of ground; key examples are Ashtree Primary School, Moss Bury Primary School, Longmeadow Primary School and Barnwell.

Stevenage also has a basketball team: Stevenage Scorpions.

The town centre links to a 27-mile (43 km) circuit walk known as STOOP: Stevenage Outer Orbital Path. The circuit provides an informal, active recreational leisure amenity readily available to the residents of Stevenage and the surrounding villages.^[35]

Culture

A small community arts centre is located in the Roaring Meg Retail Park.^[36] The Boxfield and Foyer Gallery is situated in the Gordon Craig Theatre, which forms part of the large central Leisure Centre.^[37] Stevenage Museum is located under the St. Andrew and St. George's church on St George’s Way^[38]

Transport

A distinctive feature of Stevenage is its urban landscape. It has many roundabouts,^[39] few traffic lights, a network of completely segregated cycleways, and some of the tallest street lights in Britain. Eric Claxton was chief engineer of Stevenage from 1962 to 1972, and the comprehensive separate cycle network was planned and implemented by him during that period. Despite this network, the bike mode share is 2.7%.^[40]

Stevenage is served by the A1(M) motorway. The old Great North Road passes through the centre of the town, and the High Street in the Old Town has several pubs that were coaching inns on this road; it is mostly now classified as the B197. Stevenage is also served by the A602, connecting the town to Hitchin, Watton-at-Stone, and Ware.

Buses within and to outside the town are provided by several operators, the main within the town being Arriva The Shires. Other operators include Centrebus, Uno, and Cozy Travel.

The town is served by Stevenage railway station on the East Coast Main Line, and has regular commuter services to London and Cambridge, as well as connections to the North and Scotland.

Notable people

Born in Stevenage

• Ian Allinson (b. 1957), footballer
• Harry Bates (1850–1899), sculptor
• Sir Thomas Clarke (b. 1527), knighted by Henry VIII.^[41]
• Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), scenographer and theatre theorist
• Andrew Croft (1906–1991) explorer and SOE (Special Operations Executive) agent
• Albert and Ebenezer Fox (1857–1926, 1857–1936), infamous poachers
• Gabz Gardiner, finalist in series 7 of Britain's Got Talent^[42]
• Lewis Hamilton (b. 1985), Formula One world champion (2008, 2014, 2015)
• Nicolas Hamilton (b. 1992), racing driver
• Peter Harper (1921–2003) International Rally Driver
• Ken Hensley (b. 1945), keyboard player and main songwriter of Uriah Heep in the 1970s
• Aleks Josh, contestant on The Voice UK^[43]
• William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (1885 – 1957), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1945 to 1951
• Nadeem Leigh, contestant on The Voice UK^[44]
• Cathy Lesurf, singer and member of bands such as Oysterband, Fiddler's Dram, Fairport Convention and The Albion Country Band
• Richard Norwood (c.1590 – 1675), first person to survey the islands of Bermuda
• Alex Pettyfer (b. 1990), actor
• Kevin Phillips (b. 1973), footballer
• Rob Playford (b. 1968), Drum and Bass Pioneer and founder of Moving Shadow Records
• Elizabeth Poston, composer, born in Highfield House, Pin Green (now the site of Hampson Park) and later lived in Rooks Nest.^[45]
• Ian Poulter (b. 1976), golfer
• Jason Shackell (b. 1983), footballer
• John Thurloe (1616–1668), secretary to Oliver Cromwell, lived in what is now the Cromwell Hotel
• Phil Vincent (1908–1979), British motorcycle pioneer
• Ed Westwick (b. 1987), actor
• Jack Wilshere (b. 1992), Arsenal footballer
• Anthony (Tony) John Wright (b. 1962), cricketer
• Karen Woo, surgeon, killed along with other aid workers in Afghanistan (2010 Badakhshan massacre)
• Ashley Young (b. 1985), Manchester United footballer

Stevenage residents

• Francis Cammaerts (1916–2006), French Resistance leader, headmaster of Alleyne's Grammar School and witness in the Lady Chatterley Trial, October 1960.
• John Cooper Clarke, performance poet, briefly lived in Stevenage, and allegedly wrote "Evidently Chickentown" about his experiences in the locale.^[46]
• Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington (1907 – 1998), politician who served as chair of the Stevenage Development Corporation
• Denholm Elliott (1922–1992), actor, who lived in the house now known as the 'Little Folks Lab' nursery in North Road.
• E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist, lived in the house at Rooks Nest from 1883 to 1893.
• Tommy Hampson (1907–1965), Olympic athlete. Hampson Park is named after him.^[47]
• Emma Kennedy (born 1967), who wrote the BBC drama The Kennedys based on her childhood there
• Stephen McPartland (born 1976), MP for Stevenage
• Miguel of Portugal, King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834, is reputed to have lived on the High Street around 1845^[48]
• Leslie Phillips, actor, evacuated to Stevenage during the Second World War.^[49]
• David Schaal, actor, spent his teenage years in Stevenage.^[50]
• Naum Slutzky (1894–1965), designer, master of Bauhaus University, Weimar
• Gary Younge, journalist. Lived in Stevenage until the age of 17.^[51]

Education

Many schools were built in the 1950s/60s due to an influx of Londoners to affordable terraced housing in areas such as Shephall, Broadwater, Chells and St Nicholas. The town has around 23 primary schools (see below). Some go to the surrounding villages of Aston, Benington, Walkern, Datchworth for their schooling. Stevenage also has a number of secondary schools and the central campus for North Hertfordshire College.

Primary Schools

• Almond Hill Junior^[52]
• Ashtree Primary School & Nursery^[53]
• Bedwell Primary School & Nursery^[54]
• Broom Barns Community Primary^[55]
• Camps Hill Community Primary^[56]
• Fairlands Primary School & Nursery^[57]
• Featherstone Wood Primary School & Nursery^[58]
• Giles Junior^[59]
• Giles Nursery & Infants^[60]
• Letchmore Infants' & Nursery^[61]
• The Leys Primary & Nursery^[62]
• Lodge Farm Primary^[63]
• Longmeadow Primary^[64]
• Martins Wood Primary^[65]
• Moss Bury Primary School & Nursery^[66]
• Peartree Spring Primary^[67]
• Roebuck Primary School & Nursery^[68]
• Shephalbury Park Primary^[69]
• St Margaret Clitherow Roman Catholic Primary^[70]
• St Nicholas C of E Primary School & Nursery^[71]
• St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary^[72]
• Trotts Hill Primary & Nursery^[73]
• Woolenwick Infant & Nursery^[74]
• Woolenwick JM^[75]

Special Needs schools

• Larwood Primary^[76]
• Lonsdale^[77]
• Greenside^[78]
• The Valley Secondary^[79]
• Barnwell (containing the VIBase^[80] for blind & visually impaired pupils and the SPLD Base^[81] for Pupils with specific learning difficulties)

Secondary schools

• Barnwell School - In 2006, Barnwell school took in students from Collenswood School after its closure. Students are now taught on two sites: Barnwell East and Barnwell West.^[82]
• The Barclay School - A technology college specialist ICT college.^[83]
• The Da Vinci Studio School of Science and Engineering - A studio school specialising in science and engineering.^[84]
• The John Henry Newman School - A specialist arts school.^[85]
• Marriotts School - A sports college. Marriotts will convert to sponsored Academy status with potential completion in September 2016.^[86]
• The Nobel School - A specialist performing arts and science DCSF training school.^[87]
• The Thomas Alleyne Academy^[88]

Colleges

• North Hertfordshire College (Stevenage Campus), Monkswood Way, Stevenage, SG1 1LA^[89]

Former schools

• Round Diamond (site in Pin Green closed and relocated to Great Ashby, now officially classified as a North Hertfordshire School.)^[90]
• Pope Pius XII RC JMI (site in Chells closed and amalgamated with St John Southworth RC JMI, September 1990)
• St John Southworth RC JMI
• Pin Green JMI
• Burydale (amalgamated with Shephall Green Infant School in September 2005, now closed)
• Collenswood School (secondary school, closed in 2006 and the site became part of Barnwell School)
• Stevenage Girls School (amalgamated with Alleynes School to become Thomas Alleynes School)
• Chells School (a secondary school, the former site of which is now occupied by The Nobel School)
• Heathcote School (Secondary school, closed in 2012 and the site became part of Barnwell School)
• St Michael's (Catholic boys secondary school, moved from Mount St. Michael France to Hitchin then to Stevenage now amalgamated with St Angela's to form John Henry Newman)
• Shephalbury Secondary Modern School (Shephalbury Park, now a housing estate)
• The Grange (c.1847–c.1939)

Places of worship

Stevenage has an active network of Christian churches of many denominations. Many of the churches work together for town-wide projects under the banner of "Churches Together in Stevenage".^[91] Stevenage also has a mosque and a Liberal Jewish Synagogue.

Some of the places of worship include:

• All Saints Church (Anglican/Methodist Union)^[92]
• Bunyan Baptist Church^[93]
• Christ the King Church (Anglican)^[94]
• City of David Church (Redeemed Christian Church of God)^[95]
• Elim Pentecostal Church^[96]
• Grace Community Church (Newfrontiers)^[97]
• Great Ashby Community Church (Anglican/Baptist Joint Project)^[98]
• High Street Methodist Church^[99]
• Holy Trinity Church (Anglican)^[100]
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses^[101]
• Longmeadow Evangelical Church^[102]
• Friends Meeting House (Quakers)^[103]
• Roman Catholic Church of St Hilda^[104]
• Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph^[105]
• Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration^[106]
• Salvation Army Corps^[107]
• Church of St Andrew & St George (Anglican)^[108]
• Seventh-day Adventist Church^[109]
• Stevenage Liberal Synagogue (Liberal Judaism)^[110]
• Stevenage Muslim Community Centre^[111]
• St Hugh & St John Church (Anglican/Methodist Union)^[112]
• St Mary's Church (Anglican)^[113]
• St Nicholas Church (Anglican)^[114]
• St Paul's Church (Methodist)^[115]
• St Peter's Church (Anglican)^[116]
• Stevenage Vineyard Fellowship^[117]
• United Reformed Church^[118]
• Whomerley Spiritual Church & Centre^[119]

Twin Towns

City	Country	Year
Ingelheim am Rhein	Germany	1963
Autun	France	1975
Kadoma	Zimbabwe	1989
Shymkent	Kazakhstan	1990

See also

• Stevenage (UK Parliament constituency)
• Grade I listed buildings in Stevenage
• Grade II* listed buildings in Stevenage

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stevenage.

• Stevenage Borough Council
• Stevenage Football Club
• Stevenage Borough Supporters Association
• Stevenage travel guide from Wikivoyage
• The Stevenage-Ingelheim-Autun Association
• Stevenage Kadoma Link Association
• Stephen McPartland, MP for Stevenage
• Stevenage Parliamentary Constituency
• Stevenage Health Profile 2011 (pdf)

Neighbouring areas

	Hitchin	Letchworth, Baldock	Cottered, Buntingford
	Luton		Walkern, Benington, Standon, Bishop's Stortford
		Stevenage
	Kimpton, Harpenden	Knebworth, Welwyn Garden City	Watton-at-Stone, Ware, Hertford

Ceremonial county of Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Portal Boroughs or districts Borough of Broxbourne Borough of Dacorum District of East Hertfordshire Borough of Hertsmere District of North Hertfordshire City and District of St Albans Borough of Stevenage District of Three Rivers Borough of Watford Borough of Welwyn Hatfield Major settlements Baldock Berkhamsted Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Broxbourne Buntingford Bushey Cheshunt Harpenden Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hitchin Hoddesdon Kings Langley Letchworth Potters Bar Rickmansworth Royston Sawbridgeworth St Albans Stevenage Tring Waltham Cross Ware Watford Welwyn Garden City See also: List of civil parishes in Hertfordshire Topics Hertfordshire County Council Elections Flag Parliamentary constituencies European Parliament constituency Boundary changes Places Settlements by population Lost settlements SSSIs Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings History Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs Schools Museums Windmills King George V Playing Fields

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Civil parishes of Hertfordshire Broxbourne Unparished areas Cheshunt Hoddesdon Dacorum Parishes Aldbury Berkhamsted Bovingdon Chipperfield Flamstead Flaunden Great Gaddesden Kings Langley Little Gaddesden Markyate Nash Mills Nettleden with Potten End Northchurch Tring Tring Rural Wigginton Unparished areas Hemel Hempstead East Hertfordshire Albury Anstey Ardeley Aspenden Aston Bayford Bengeo Rural Benington Bishop's Stortford Bramfield Braughing Brent Pelham and Meesden Brickendon Liberty Buckland and Chipping Buntingford Cottered Datchworth Eastwick and Gilston Furneux Pelham Great Amwell Great Munden Hertford Hertford Heath Hertingfordbury High Wych Hormead Hunsdon Little Berkhamsted Little Hadham Little Munden Much Hadham Sawbridgeworth Standon Stanstead Abbots Stanstead St Margarets Stapleford Stocking Pelham Tewin Thorley Thundridge Walkern Ware Wareside Watton-at-Stone Westmill Widford Wyddial Hertsmere Parishes Elstree and Borehamwood Ridge Shenley South Mimms Unparished areas Bushey Potters Bar North Hertfordshire Parishes Ashwell Barkway Barley Bygrave Caldecote and Newnham Clothall and Luffenhall Codicote Graveley Great Ashby Hexton Hinxworth Holwell Ickleford Kelshall Kimpton King's Walden Knebworth Langley Lilley Nuthampstead Offley Pirton Preston Radwell Reed Royston Rushden and Wallington Sandon St Ippolyts St Paul's Walden Therfield Weston Wymondley Unparished areas Baldock Hitchin Letchworth Garden City St Albans Parishes Colney Heath Harpenden Harpenden Rural London Colney Redbourn Sandridge St Michael St Stephen Wheathampstead Unparished areas St Albans Three Rivers Parishes Abbots Langley Chorleywood Croxley Green Sarratt Watford Rural Unparished areas Rickmansworth Welwyn Hatfield Parishes Ayot St Lawrence Ayot St Peter Essendon Hatfield North Mymms Northaw and Cuffley Welwyn Woolmer Green Unparished areas Welwyn Garden City Unparished boroughs Stevenage Watford See also List of places in Hertfordshire

Coordinates: 51°54′N 0°12′W / 51.900°N 0.200°W / 51.900; -0.200

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