Knebworth
Knebworth is a town as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, as well as includes the town of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of people residing in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now referred to as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station as well as the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, and now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the architect Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until just before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously connected with numerous significant outdoors rock and pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last online performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and also drew a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more just recently Robbie Williams, that for three evenings in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever assembled for a single performer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.
