Stevenage

Stevenage is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, and is part of the London Commuter Belt. It is to the east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), and

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is between Letchworth to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south.

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Its population was 1,430 in 1801, 4,049 in 1901 and 79,724 in 2001 - the biggest rise being in the 1950s and 1960s, after becoming a new town.

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The present site of Stevenage lies near a Roman road that ran 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 the Chells Manor part of Stevenage. The most substantial evidence of activity from Roman times are the Six Hills, six tumuli by the side of the old Great North Road - presumably the burial places of a local family.

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Hertfordshire: Hertfordshire (pronounced "Hartfordshire" or "Harfordshire" and abbreviated as "Herts") is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is one of the Home Counties....