Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also includes the town of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now called Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new railway station and also the Great North Roadway (consequently the A1, as well as currently the B197 considering 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 home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, till just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been famously related to many significant open air rock and pop concerts at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 and also even more lately Robbie Williams, that for 3 evenings in August 2003 performed to the biggest groups ever constructed for a solitary entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.