Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, as well as incorporates the village of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial town, now referred to as Old Knebworth, developed 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 new railway station and also the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, and also now the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the engineer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, till right before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been notoriously related to numerous significant outdoors rock and also pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final real-time efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and more recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 done to the largest crowds ever put together for a solitary performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.