6/23/2023 0 Comments Sell house fast isle of juraStevenage was frequently visited by people travelling on the Great North Road (that used to run through Stevenage), including Samuel Pepys. Things progressed slowly and steadily for the following centuries, when Stevenage grew from a village to a very small and attractive market town centred around the High Street. Stevenage became more stable during the 11th century, and the Domesday Book records the existence of Stevenage, and many nearby hamlets such as Chells, Shephall, Woolenwick, Whomerley, and Broadwater. Stevenage was probably affected by the Danish invasions in the late 9th century as several places very close by have the name Dane End, which usually marks the edge of 'Dane-law'. Over the following centuries, various hamlets and farmsteads sprung up around the village of Stevenage, the largest ones being Shephall and Broadwater. The Saxons gave their new village the name 'Stigenace' or 'Stithenac', which means 'at the strong oak'. Later on, Saxons settled nearby to what is now the Great North Road, subsequently bypassed by the A1(M) motorway. One of the most 'famous' landmarks in Stevenage is the 'six hills', which were burial mounds for a wealthy Roman family. People have lived in the environs of Stevenage since the Roman times, and a hoard of Roman coins was found in the mid-1980s when Chells Manor was built. Overall, local citizens are supportive of their town and football team (Stevenage FC), one of the most well supported football league teams in the UK. Sadly, as with some other UK cities, this is a different place at night - its bleak, sodium-lit environment is not conducive to a thriving night time economy, which is mainly conducted in the Leisure Park by the train station, and the old town. Stevenage has the first pedestrianised shopping precinct in the UK, which on the whole remains vibrant and successful, unlike those in many other new towns. A particularly attractive feature is the network of separated bicycle paths that cross the whole area, enabling one to cycle practically anywhere in the town, without having to negotiate traffic. All of these do attract people from the surrounding area to Stevenage. Swimming pools, relatively low house prices, but a quick commute to London (25 minutes by fast train), as well as tennis courts and wide open parks. There are many reasons why you might want to come to Stevenage to live. Stevenage is like any other UK town, it has its problems and these should not be dismissed, but it also benefits from a good transport infrastructure, wide open spaces, plenty of sporting facilities, a theatre of some reputation and lovely countryside both around it, and within it. But this is to miss what the town offers. It is easy to write Stevenage off as another soulless new town, and to make stereotypical remarks about it as a place to live, as countless unthinking and lazy commentators have done. Its often unattractive architecture is mostly that of the 1960s and 1970s in this it is perhaps unfortunate, but it was also conceived with a strong vision in mind. It was a huge project to relocate those who were displaced by the war in clean, open, and healthy new towns. Stevenage is a must for architecture and planning historians, sociologists and socialists to visit, it represents, perhaps, the most successful of the great Post-War experiments with new housing. An interesting fact about the town is that a view of Stevenage from the air, shows it as a heart shape. Stevenage as a whole is not as a major tourist attraction, but there are some attractions that may attract local visitors. 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. 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. St Nicholas Church, an ancient parish church in Stevenage
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