Place:Stevenage District, Hertfordshire, England

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NameStevenage District
TypeDistrict municipality
Coordinates51.9°N 0.2°W
Located inHertfordshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoStevenage, Hertfordshire, Englandurban district from which the district municipality was formed
Hertford Rural, Hertfordshire, Englandrural district from which parishes were transferred to the district municipality

Stevenage District was a non-metropolitan district formed in 1974 and contains the former Stevenage Urban District and a few parishes from the former Hertford Rural District.

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Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It is between Letchworth Garden City to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south.

Stevenage is roughly 30 miles (50 km) north of central London. Its population has increased significantly over the last century: the population was 1,430 in 1801, 4,049 in 1901, 79,724 in 2001 and 84,651 in 2007. The largest increase occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, after Stevenage was designated a new town under the New Towns Act of 1946.

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