Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, and incorporates the town of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, currently known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth town began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new train station as well as the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, as well as currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, till just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been notoriously associated with many major open air rock and pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last online efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and even more recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 nights in August 2003 executed to the biggest groups ever before assembled for a single performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.
