Knebworth is a town and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also encompasses the village of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is proof of people living in the location as far back as Neolithic times and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original town, now referred to as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Advancement 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 the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, and also now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, till right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been notoriously related to countless significant open air rock and also pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final live efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 and more recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 done to the largest groups ever constructed for a single performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.