Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and also incorporates the town of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of people residing in the location as far back as Neolithic times and it is stated 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 original town, currently known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth town began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new train station as well as the Great North Road (subsequently the A1, and also now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, until right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been famously associated with countless major outdoors rock and also pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last real-time performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and also drew a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 and more just recently Robbie Williams, that for three evenings in August 2003 carried out to the biggest crowds ever before assembled for a solitary entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.