Knebworth
Knebworth is a town as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and includes the town of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of people staying 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 belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, currently called Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth town 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, as well as currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until prior to her death in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been notoriously related to numerous significant outdoors rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final online performance which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and even more lately Robbie Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 carried out to the biggest groups ever set up for a single performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.
