Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south 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 also encompasses the village of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the location as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is mentioned 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 initial town, currently known as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new railway station and also the Great North Road (ultimately the A1, and also currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until prior to her death in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been famously related to many significant outdoors rock as well as pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last online performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and drew an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and also more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 carried out to the largest groups ever before assembled for a single entertainer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
