What is recorded here
Stevenage Museum occupies the old undercroft of Saint Andrew and Saint George's Church and records Stevenage before and after the new town. It explains how an old Hertfordshire town was deliberately enlarged and how that change felt to the people living through it
Why it was built
occupies the old undercroft of Saint Andrew and Saint George's Church and records Stevenage before and after the new town
People and work
Farm workers, railway families, planners, factory workers and new residents all shaped the town's rapid change
How it changed
Displays compare the old market settlement with twentieth-century planning, housing, industry and daily life
What survives
The church undercroft, maps, town plans, shop objects, clothing, photographs and oral memories survive
Why it mattered
It explains how an old Hertfordshire town was deliberately enlarged and how that change felt to the people living through it
Sources for this account
Sources checked 16 August 2026.
From OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) n559969108
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Picture notes
- Robin Hall, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
- Account Inactive, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Computer-made picture. It does not show this walking route.
- Clint Mann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Humphrey Bolton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ray Stanton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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