Stevenage

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 724

Stevenage, a town of Hertfordshire, 4 miles SE. of Hitchin by rail, with an old parish church and a grammar-school (1558). Straw-plait is manufactured. Pop. (1851) 2118; (1891) 3309.

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