Knebworth is a town and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and incorporates the town of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living 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 initial village, now known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Advancement of the newer Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the engineer Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been famously related to many significant open air rock and pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final real-time performance which occurred on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a participation approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more lately Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 carried out to the largest crowds ever before constructed for a solitary performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.