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 villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the location as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, currently called Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station as well as the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, as well as currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been notoriously connected with various significant outdoors rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time performance which occurred on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 and also more lately Robbie Williams, that for 3 evenings in August 2003 carried out to the biggest groups ever set up for a single entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
