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Rooks Nest House

Weston Road, Stevenage & Forster Country. Forster Country is a relatively small area of countryside around Rooks Nest House, and it is the last remaining bit of green belt land in Stevenage Borough. Rooks Nest was the inspiration for the famous writer E.M. Forster's famous novel Howard's End. Forster lived at Rooks Nest during his childhood years, in the late 19th century. The farmhouse is a beautiful old building on a quiet lane situated on the edge of the Old Town of Stevenage. Forster Country starts at a modern sculpture inscribed 'Only Connect' (this can be reached via a path in the St Nicholas Church churchyard) and includes the fields near that (it has no clear border). Rooks Nest House is a private residence and not open to the public.

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