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Stevenage FC, formerly known as Stevenage Borough, 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.
Nov 11, 2016 · Stevenage is proud of those connections and has filled a walkway between the shops and the leisure centre with pictures of the famous faces. Stevenage sons (and daughters) Image caption,
Jun 3, 2022 · Stevenage has quite the alumnus of famous residents, which you can see highlighted on the bridge between the town and the railway station. It is an impressive list considering its population was ...
- 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.
Stevenage is home to a series of major, international organisations including MBDA, Airbus and GSK. It offers a unique balance of urban and rural living and provides fantastic transport links to London and beyond in just 20 minutes. Stevenage is known to many as the UK’s ‘Space City’.
Jul 23, 2020 · Stevenage was designated as the first New Town in the UK, which would help resettle families from London. Soon it would house 60,000 people, with the first residents moving in during 1952.
Jan 16, 2024 · This blog uncovers the hidden gems of Stevenage, from its iconic clock tower to the lesser-known corners that reveal the true heart of this town – its people and their stories. The heart of a town lies in its people by Anna Marie Felice. It wasn’t until I started to pay closer attention to my surroundings, equipped with my camera, that I ...
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