Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately 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 includes the village of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, now known as 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 train station and the Great North Roadway (consequently the A1, and also currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the engineer Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been notoriously connected with numerous significant open air rock and pop performances at Knebworth House, including Queen's last real-time efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence estimated 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 carried out to the largest crowds ever set up for a solitary entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.