Stevenage

[stee-vuh-nij]

noun

1. a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.

Stevenage

/ ˈstiːvənɪdʒ /

noun

1. a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire on the Great North Road: developed chiefly as the first of the new towns (1946). Pop: 81 482 (2001)

Example Sentences

After World War Two Clement Attlee's government planned the first wave of new towns, including in Stevenage, Crawley and Welwyn Garden City, to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing, with development corporations assigned responsibility for building them.

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Jake Cummings, 26, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was a special constable in Dorset when he attacked the first woman, and a police constable in London when the offences took place against the other two women.

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In a Reform UK statement, Stevenage Borough councillor Mason Humberstone, who has represented Old Town ward since his election in 2023, said: "I have not left the Labour Party, Labour has left us."

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Reform UK said it was "delighted" to have him join the party - giving it its only councillor at Stevenage.

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Humberstone's political career began while he was still at school, when he became a member of the Stevenage Youth Council and unsuccessfully ran to be the borough's youth mayor.

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