Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, as well as incorporates the village of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as 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 initial village, currently known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Growth of the more recent Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and also the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and also currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until just before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been notoriously associated with numerous significant open air rock as well as pop shows at Knebworth House, including Queen's last real-time efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 and attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more lately Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 performed to the biggest crowds ever before assembled for a single performer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.
