Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original town, now referred to as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Advancement of the newer Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station and also the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, as well as currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, until just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been famously connected with countless major open air rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last real-time efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 as well as drew an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and even more lately Robbie Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever put together for a solitary performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.