Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, and includes the village of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of people living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed 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 initial village, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station as well as the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, as well as currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the architect Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, up until right before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously related to various major open air rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time performance which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as 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 even more lately Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 performed to the largest groups ever before constructed for a solitary performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
