In spite of its international and local importance, the Forster Country had no sort of protected status and there were continual attempts to build on it.

In 1988, John Hepworth (retired geologist) and Margaret Ashby (writer & lecturer)  both of whom had been campaigning to prevent development in the Forster Country, joined forces to form the Friends of the Forster Country (FoFC), with the aim -

"TO PRESERVE FOR ALL TIME THE OPEN GREEN SPACE TO THE NORTH
OF STEVENAGE KNOWN AS THE FORSTER COUNTRY."

Join Us

Since 1946, local people have been campaigning to save the Forster Country from development and to preserve it as a vital 'green lung' for north Stevenage.

Please join us now. Don't leave it until too late and bulldozers smash through OUR countryside.

Margaret Ashby, John Hepworth - Founders of the Friends of the Forster Country