Ashtree Primary School

Stevenage 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 32. 9mi 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, 715 in 2001 and 83, 957 in 2011. The largest increase occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, after Stevenage was designated a new town under the New Towns Act of 1946. The current population is now estimated to be around 84, 000. 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. EtymologyStevenage may derive from Old English stiþen āc / stiðen āc / stithen ac (various Old English dialects cited here) meaning '(place at) the stiff oak'.

Stevenage 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 32. 9mi 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, 715 in 2001 and 83, 957 in 2011. The largest increase occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, after Stevenage was designated a new town under the New Towns Act of 1946. The current population is now estimated to be around 84, 000. 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. EtymologyStevenage may derive from Old English stiþen āc / stiðen āc / stithen ac (various Old English dialects cited here) meaning '(place at) the stiff oak'.