Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, and also encompasses the town of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals residing in the location as far back as Neolithic times and it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now called Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Advancement of the newer Knebworth town began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new train station and also the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and also currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence 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 many significant open air rock and also pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final online performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as even more recently Robbie Williams, that for three evenings in August 2003 carried out to the biggest groups ever put together for a single entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
