Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly 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, as well as includes the village of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of people staying 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 coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original town, now known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new train station and also the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the designer 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, up until right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously related to countless major open air rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 as well as drew a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more lately Robbie Williams, that for three nights in August 2003 done to the biggest groups ever before put together for a solitary entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
