Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, as well as encompasses the village of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals staying 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 ranch coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, currently known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and the Great North Road (ultimately the A1, and currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the architect Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been famously associated with countless significant outdoors rock and also pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last online efficiency which occurred on 9 August 1986 and drew a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as even more lately Robbie Williams, that for 3 evenings in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever set up for a solitary performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.
