Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly 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 includes the village of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals staying in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is mentioned 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, currently called Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the brand-new railway station and also the Great North Road (subsequently the A1, and currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the engineer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously related to numerous significant outdoors rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, including Queen's last live performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and drew a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 as well as even more just recently Robbie Williams, that for three evenings in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever before assembled for a solitary entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.