From the north end of Stevenage High Street you can walk from the Bowling Green, up the tree-lined Avenue to St. Nicholas Church. Wandering through the church yard is a path, follow the path until you find the modern sculpture inscribed "Only Connect". Past the sculpture the path emerges into a vista of gently undulating fields and hedges. The view is of the last remaining farmland within the borough of Stevenage. This is the Forster Country.

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was the author of Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India and Maurice, as well as short stories, essays and other work. From 1883 to 1893 he lived at "Rooks Nest" a house passed St. Nicholas church on the winding road to Weston. It was memories of his time here that formed the setting for Howards End published in 1910, the house had originally been owned by the Howard family.

The sculpture, "Only Connect" takes its name from the subtitle of Forster's Howards End. As well as marking the entrance to the Forster Country, it also commemorates the year 1994 when the land was first included in the Green Belt boundary.